In-game script editor. Where do I start?

[boatbomber (Zack Williams)]

I documented the process of creating my Lua Learning IDE, so I’m sure you’ll find some helpful lessons here:

In-Game TextBox IDE

I’m showing this off because it’s the culmination of years of work, and I’m really proud of the result. It’s gone through lots of incremental changes and rewrites, and continuously improved over time, so I’m documenting it as best I can. A lot of this is based on vague memories and old tweets, so some aspects might be slightly inaccurate. For Lua Learning to meet its design goal, the player would need a good IDE to learn and practice in. In March 2018, I began writing a Lua lexer from scratc…

I also open sourced the lexer from it, so that’s a huge piece of the puzzle handed to you:

Lexer for RBX Lua

Sorry for bumping this very old post, but I never stopped working on this! It’s a major part of my game Lua Learning so I kept making little tweaks. @pobammer made some optimizations, making it noticeably faster. I also updated the builtin dictionary to include the changes that Roblox has made over time! Major Update August 6th 2020: Huge rework to make improvements to lexer behavior. It used to return operators and unknowns as tokens themselves, so your implementation had to handle rando…