Generally speaking, the pain of handling hot patching depends highly on the structure of your codebase and the reason for hot patching to begin with. For a stru

Generally speaking, the pain of handling hot patching depends highly on the structure of your codebase and the reason for hot patching to begin with. For a structure-of-arrays architecture, or for fixing logic errors at run-time, it's really no big deal at all. It is limited utility, but if you start out from the mindset it's something you'll use a lot, those limitations start disappearing rather quickly.