MJmjburgess·Jan 3, 2024
fyi, "hot reload" is a native part of every operating system (consider, even trivially, forking or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_loading).
It's a sign of how bad developer tooling has been that live reload is sold as an add-on feature. DX seems always to see-saw between bill gate's c. 1990 demo of VB, and the compile-time speeds of a N' Wirth.
At a guess, when the internet happened, all DX had to be thrown away and we still arent back to where we were 30+ y ago.
I support being paid for your work, but live reload is a fairly trivial thing to write for yourself -- I spent one day this gone weekend writing a debugger in C which does it.
(consider also, https://github.com/tsoding/musializer which has live rebuild via the nobuild system in nob.c)
In C and C++ Hot-Reload/Live Coding