IMO, the main impedance towards scripted graphics facilitating hot reloading is that they are generally coded in object hierarchies whose nested state is diffic

IMO, the main impedance towards scripted graphics facilitating hot reloading is that they are generally coded in object hierarchies whose nested state is difficult to serialise. I have found using the 2d canvas context as an immediate mode renderer alongside a single global store allows me to create workflows more similar to what one would expect with React.