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Does it support hotreload? To me that's the piece that's missing in all these new languages Being able to hot patch code saves you from having to recompile ev

Does it support hotreload? To me that's the piece that's missing in all these new languages Being able to hot patch code saves you from having to recompile everything and reload the state of your program, saves lot of time I was excited when Zig announced planning it, but it's been like 4 years now and they went radio silence unfortunatly

brendanfh 3y ago
That is a planned feature because I really want that too! I believe it should be possible and not take years to develop, especially because Onyx does have its own WASM runtime that I can completely control how and when certain things happen, like pausing for a hot reload. This runtime is currently Linux only, but I should be able to address that relatively soon. I don't know if it would be possible with Wasmer as the runtime, without Wasmer making severe modifications to its code generation and runtime. Hot reload is a tricky problem, but I believe for the developer experience, it is worth trying.