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I've been waiting years for some cooperation between languages and editors to achieve things Bret Victor wanted years ago, like "Just change this constant while
by ReactiveJelly 5y ago
I've been waiting years for some cooperation between languages and editors to achieve things Bret Victor wanted years ago, like "Just change this constant while the program is running", where you can have very tight iteration loops for things that don't need a full recompile.
I mean, Visual Studio has some kind of hot reloading, but I'm not gonna VS, I want mainstream support for this fast iteration and deep runtime debugging.
- stjohnswarts 5y agogdb has allowed you to change runtime variable values for the couple of decades that I've been using it. e.g. "set var i=10" ? Or are you talking about something else?
- nneonneo 5y agoIt's very limited, and doesn't work for things like constants that might be compiled straight into the code. By contrast, a true hot-reload can swap out the actual code at runtime.