I seem to spend 90% of my coding time on debugging / trying to figure out why something isn't working, and so I'm wondering if anyone has any general tips on how to debug more efficiently. I use a lot of print() statements to look at variables and stuff, but I wonder if there's anything more I could do to speed along my debugging process. I should mention that I'm not the most experienced coder, and am relatively new to lua.

Also, I saw in the debug library / manual (?) (https://pgl.yoyo.org/luai/i/debug.debug) that apparently you can use debug.debug to "enter an interactive mode with the user" and "inspect global and local variables, change their values, evaluate expressions, and so on." I'm wondering how this can be done? I'm able to enter this interactive mode, however I don't know what commands to enter in order to do the aforementioned things. Where can I find a list of commands for this? I can't seem to find any additional information on debug.debug anywhere aside from this snippet.

Any help / discussion on the topic of effective debugging practices would be appreciated!