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Re: C and C++ Hot-Reload/Live Coding

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I am very glad to see something like this is finally reaching mainstream consciousness. Not being able to do this on Linux (and it unfortunately looks like this is also Windows only) has been a major source of frustration for me when writing C++, especially given that something like it (edit and continue) has been available in Visual C++ for near on 20 years.

I would really like to make Live++ available for Linux one day - it's been asked for a few times already.

Re: C and C++ Hot-Reload/Live Coding

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Does this have any further benefit than what Visual Studio's hot code reloading provides?

Yeah, I was wondering the exact same thing.

There is a comparison between Live++ and Visual Studio's Edit-and-Continue here: https://liveplusplus.tech/faq.html

In our (and many of our customers') experience, E&C doesn't work for anything larger than simple toy projects. It just isn't reliable.

On top of that, I think its biggest shortcoming is that E&C doesn't work with optimizations at all (this is documented), and is tied to the Visual Studio IDE, which not everybody uses.

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