Re: LuaProbe — small source-level debugger for Lua 5.1 / LuaJIT (two files, no C deps)

On 2026-04-29 11:05, António Cardoso wrote:
> Hi. I've been debugging a fairly large Lua 5.1 codebase at work and got
> tired of sprinkling print() everywhere, so I ended up writing a proper
> debugger and just open-sourced it.
>
> https://github.com/PlugwiseBV/LuaProbe
>
> [...]
>
> MIT-licensed. Happy to answer questions or take suggestions.
>
Nice repo,

I like it's short and complete code. And also kudos for documenting
input/output table structures.

I have rare luxury of using my own codebase. Which has zero print's().
When I need to debug something I just insert print() where I want,
then run program and read results. So REPL is no use for me.

Can debugger's discovery methods can be exposed to program?
So when debugging I can insert something like "LuaProbe:PrintLocals()".

-- Martin

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