Codea Review

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Review of Codea powered by the Slant community.

Coding in Lua on the iPad.

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Pros

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Helpful code editor

Errors show up live, as you type. Smarter autocompletion picks up your local and global variables, including nested types. Everything else is just plain smarter, from indentation to highlighting.

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Ships with music and sound packs

Codea ships with three great music and sound packs, composed just for Codea and free for you to use in whatever you create.

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You can code on an iPad and easily distribute the game

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Location library

Location library lets you make use of the GPS inside your iPad. Get your latitude, longitude, altitude and more with a dead-simple API designed specifically for Codea.