Best IDEs and/or Editors for Solar2D?

I’ve used Studio Brane for years, but I’m inquiring what all of you are using? Why? Because I would prefer to use an IDE that can support other code types, formats and platforms (i.e. VSCode but can’t get that to work). Any feedback is much appreciated?

i tried investigating that, eventually i ended up with using sublime and Microsoft’s Copilot Ai
since then my productivity is 1000% if not more, Better, faster, shorter, more professional code 1000% if not more
I almost stopped writing code, i just drop it on the Ai, and it does the rest…

You can even drop a large chunk of code and just ask it to enhance it, and it will amaze you

IDE is a bless, but with scripting languages it might not be easy to find one that really works like for example Visual Studio 2022 where you can simply drag and drop forms and objects and double click an object to edit its code.

Ai is even doing 99% of the work for back end database design, Web Api, and Desktop and Web Interface for the same system no matter what the technology is for any of them.

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There is CURSOR that already comes with AI built into it and accepts VSCode extensions and plugins, but I haven’t tested it yet. I use Zerobrane because it’s simple, lightweight and works well with Lua and Solar2D, it’s just very ugly, but I’m studying its documentation with a friend to customize it our way.

Tried VS Code, it has tons of fancy feature but I like something more simple with useful features. Sublime Text has very simple and clean UI yet provide lot of features that making edit codes less tedious.
shift selected lines up or down, duplicate multiple line, multiple lines select then paste them to specific separated multiple position as you wish …etc can be done by using shortcut keys, really saves a lot of time.

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I always used Notepad++, light and fast

I use VS Code for writing code (with the assistance of Github Copilot) and I am more than happy. When I encounter more complex issue then I open ZeroBrane Studio for its debugger, however that does not happen that often.
What exactly do you mean that you can’t get VSCode to work?

It would be great if there was a way to add a copilot extension to Zerobrane.