I’m quite happy with Visual Studio 2003 (I’ll be even happier with 2005, judging by the beta). I’m determined to use it for as much coding as possible - something I never managed in Visual Studio 6.

Anyway, I’ve semi-happily got it working with F# (an OCaml under the CLR, for those who care. A lengthy post may eventually appear on this subject). Tonight I’ve started using Lua again and have got into a reasonable state of editing/running code in Visual Studio. I downloaded lualite and added lua.exe as an external tool in VS with $(ItemFileName)$(ItemExt) as arguments and $(ItemDir) as the initial directory.

There’s probably a better way of getting it to play nice with project configurations and the like, but this will more than suffice for now.

As for justification for Lua? Well DaveT (a wise work colleague) has a crazy idea That Might Just Work about Lua and DS development. I’ve currently got plans of a yielding PacMan. Don’t ask.