Thanks; I'm quite happy with LÖVE. I've actually been quite impressed with how easy it is to work with the whole time.

Though speaking of frontends, it is actually also possible to get the game to open a socket and connect to it from Emacs, programming your ship from the outside. It's not very polished at this point, but I intend to expose the in-game UI over the nREPL protocol so you can code other clients for it if the in-game editor doesn't suit your fancy: https://gitlab.com/technomancy/bussard/blob/master/bussard.e...