Decoda is a free and open-sourced professional development environment for debugging Lua script in your applications (A Lua IDE). It’s familiar and fast and you’ll wonder how you ever worked without it.
Today we are very pleased to announce that we’ve released Decoda, our Lua IDE (Integrated Development Environment) and debugger, as open source. You can get the latest version of the source from GitHub and the Windows installer from the download page.
We created Decoda in 2007 just as we were starting work on Natural Selection 2 and getting our company off the ground. Since Natural Selection 2 uses Lua heavily we realized that a complete IDE with an integrated debugger would be critical. Although it was initially an internal tool, we quickly realized that other developers would benefit from Decoda as well. To help fund our company, we productized Decoda and began selling through our website. Over the years we’ve licensed Decoda to many game studios and its revenue helped keep our company on stable ground even in some of the rockiest financial times.
Today, after the successful launch of Natural Selection 2, we have the opportunity to re-evaluate our business strategy. As a tool, Decoda is just as important for us as it was when we wrote the first line of code — our programmers use it every day in the continuing development of the game. In fact, it’s so important to us that we want it to improve faster than ever.
We intend to keep on developing Decoda, but we are most excited about what *you* can do to help make it the best IDE out there!
Decoda 1.16 is now available for download. If you have auto-updates enabled, Decoda will automatically detect the update and download it (you can also manually do this by selecting Help/Check For Updates from the menu). Otherwise download the latest installer from here. If you experienced side-by-side errors with previous versions of Decoda, we recommend uninstalling and re-installing with the latest installer.
Here’s the change list for Decoda 1.16:
If your evaluation for Decoda has ended and you would like to request an extension, please e-mail us at [email protected].
As usual, please e-mail us at [email protected] if you have any problems or suggestions.
Decoda 1.15 is now available for download. If you have auto-updates enabled, Decoda will automatically detect the update and download it (you can also manually do this by selecting Help/Check For Updates from the menu). Otherwise download the latest installer from here. If you experienced side-by-side errors with previous versions of Decoda, we recommend uninstalling and re-installing with the latest installer.
Here’s the change list for Decoda 1.15:
If your evaluation for Decoda has ended and you would like to request an extension, please e-mail us at [email protected].
As usual, please e-mail us at [email protected] if you have any problems or suggestions.