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A comment on Unity plan pricing and packaging updates. Parent comment

Re:Unity plan pricing and packaging updates by fxtentacle on Tuesday September 12, 2023 @03:00PM (#37486093)
"Being able to fix a bug without resetting memory state is a huge ergonomic advantage in game development"

Visual Studio works with UE and calls that "Edit and Continue" and it works in C++, too.

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Re:Unity plan pricing and packaging updates by sha90 on Tuesday September 12, 2023 @03:54PM (#37487109)
Yes, but it has many known limitations and isn't nearly as reliable as a runtime that has a full GC and virtualization optionality, which you really need in order to fully track what state can be evicted and what needs to stay.
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