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Re:Despite best efforts .NET is still not an open platform by unhammer on Thursday June 16, 2022 @03:40AM (#31763447)
is `dotnet watch` basically `git ls-files|entr dotnet build` ?

(entr is http://eradman.com/entrproject/ – like inotifywait but easier)

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Re:Despite best efforts .NET is still not an open platform by klysm on Thursday June 16, 2022 @05:22AM (#31763997)
It may as well be. It can do some legit hot reload, but the set of scenarios where it works is so small it’s effectively useless.
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Re:Despite best efforts .NET is still not an open platform by exyi on Thursday June 16, 2022 @06:39AM (#31764469)
Yea, the drama occurred when it was in preview, so we all thought it's going to have real hot-reload capability as we know from webdev.
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Re:Despite best efforts .NET is still not an open platform by JamesSwift on Thursday June 16, 2022 @09:57AM (#31766092)
No, it has a lot of bytecode level intelligence to surgically replace the parts of the program that need replaced (as I understand it). Your version just re-runs the project from scratch whenever a change occurs.
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Re:Despite best efforts .NET is still not an open platform by ygra on Thursday June 16, 2022 @05:44AM (#31764141)
I think it also replaces the running code on the fly.
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