I worked on a codebase in Django that started in > 5s (after removing all side effects and moving optional stuff to be lazily loaded). Incremental reload would

I worked on a codebase in Django that started in > 5s (after removing all side effects and moving optional stuff to be lazily loaded). Incremental reload would be useful, for sure. Even with times in the range of multiple seconds, the reload slows you down noticeably. Compared to Java, we had slower startup times with Java, but then the hot reload worked very well, directly from IDE.