alt Hacker NewsWhat’s missing in most languages is truly native hot reload. Python, for all its dynamicism and being lisp for dictionaries, surprisingly can’t really do it. Maybe node can, but as far as I can tell typescript can’t and I’m not letting the shoggoths touch plain js.
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cyberax • today at 5:32 AM
Uhh.... TS/JS definitely can: https://bjornlu.com/blog/hot-module-replacement-is-easy
I've never understood this. You can't just combine the state of an old program with new code, without lots of weird things potentially happening. The algorithms and all intermediate products would have to match, at every step of the programs.