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crosire / blink

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A tool which allows you to edit source code of any MSVC C++ project live at runtime

2Distinct people
2Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
1.2KGitHub stars
REPOSITORY AT A GLANCE

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What it is

A tool which allows you to edit source code of any MSVC C++ project live at runtime

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Where it is used

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What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year2 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2019-01-06 15:43:41 UTC to 2023-08-11 00:17:53 UTC.

012019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20212022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2023

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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> 9. The debugger can modify a variable while the program is running. > 11. The debugger can modify a function while the program is running (any new calls are done to that function). Another words: hot code reloading / swapping [1]. And I would add: > You record a failure once, then debug the recording, deterministically, as many times as you want. The same execution is replayed every time. [2] [1] e.g. https://github.com/ddovod/jet-live, https://github.com/crosire/blink, https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/68 [2] https://rr-project.org/
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