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No, they aren't. With Java you can change code while the application is running and it will be hot-swapped after you have recompiled it. I learned about this f
by zvrba 14y ago
No, they aren't. With Java you can change code while the application is running and it will be hot-swapped after you have recompiled it.
I learned about this feature when playing a bit in Eclipse, forgot to kill the program between edits, and got a warning that the recompiled class couldn't be hot-swapped because its signature changed. And then I sat there in awe; I can just dream about this functioning reliably with C++.
- zdouglas 14y agoEdit & continue is available with the V8 engine as well, so add JavaScript to the list of languages being unrighteously ignored.
- rieter 14y agoMicrosoft Visual C++ supported "Edit and Continue" for many many years.
- seabee 14y agoI remember using this in MSVC 6 - so at least 14 years ago.
- zvrba 14y ago"Supports", "works" and "is usable" are three totally different things. I doubt that E&C is truly usable since even much simpler things -- for example, data breakpoints when debugging native+managed code -- is unsupported in VS2010. (Needed exactly that today.) E&C is disabled also for C# as soon as you turn on native-code debugging.