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dismalaf04/23/20251 replyview on HN

2) I thought the issue was compilation from TS -> JS. So what's the issue? I remember live coding in JS like 15 years ago, have dev environments just gotten weird and convoluted?


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baq04/23/2025

No idea. My working theory is the gotta go fast folks at v8 don’t care about live hot reload because that doesn’t give them ad revenue, so they just wontfixed the whole thing and there is no alternative on the backend if you want typescript.

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