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Re:Why I Don't Like Golang (2016) by jsjolen on Thursday June 13, 2019 @07:53AM (#20173853)
If the size of a struct is changed through hot-code reloading then how does the runtime react?
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Re:Why I Don't Like Golang (2016) by amedvednikov on Thursday June 13, 2019 @01:51PM (#20177134)
Only function bodies can changed.

I don't think it's possible to modify structs on the fly.

Maybe it is, I need to think about it/do research.

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Re:Why I Don't Like Golang (2016) by jsjolen on Thursday June 13, 2019 @03:51PM (#20178043)
Don't worry, it pretty much isn't possible to do so without semantics which will basically make your program "drift" during run-time away from what a newly compiled program would do.

EDIT: Assuming inlining and call-by-value struct is a possibility.

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