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Re:C and C++ Hot-Reload/Live Coding by ur-whale on Thursday January 04, 2024 @04:50AM (#38865123)
Yeah, I was wondering the exact same thing.
Re:C and C++ Hot-Reload/Live Coding by tivolo on Thursday January 11, 2024 @06:18AM (#38950735)
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.