Re:C and C++ Hot-Reload/Live Coding
by hoten on Wednesday January 03, 2024 @01:29PM
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Does this have any further benefit than what Visual Studio's hot code reloading provides?
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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.