Or “How to turn Neovim into a Defold IDE” 
I’ve been wanting to use Neovim with Defold and I couldn’t get other solutions I’ve found to run so I made my own which my brother and I have been using for a while now and I thought its perhaps a good time to share the project.
Features
- Code Hot-Reloading: Make code tweaks and see them live in Defold, no waiting.
- Defold Control from Neovim: Run Defold commands right from Neovim with custom shortcuts.
- LSP Integration: Get Defold API hints and autocomplete in Neovim’s built-in LSP.
- Dependency Annotations: Auto-load LSP annotations for your Defold dependencies.
- Debugger: Step through your code and dig into issues with ease.
- Snippets: Insert pre-made code snippets to save time.
Supports Linux, macOS and Windows although I’m only using Linux so mac and Windows might still be a bit rough. I’ve done some testing in VMs but would appreciate some feedback
https://github.com/atomicptr/defold.nvim
Just follow the install and setup instructions in the README and you should be good to go (if not write me a message and I try to get it fixed).
The most annoying part here was getting the debugger to run, the Defold editor is using MobDebug internally so I thought it would be a good idea if we’d use that too which turned out to take a bit of effort. Neovim similar to VSCode uses the Debug Adapter Protocol these days (nvim-dap) so the fastest way was to implement a sort of bridge between MobDebug and Neovim using a custom DAP implementation which you can find here GitHub - atomicptr/mobdap: Debug adapter implementation for Lua / ModDebug · GitHub which perhaps can be of use for other editor projects god knows :).
