Re:The Grug Brained Developer (2022)
by draven on Wednesday June 18, 2025 @03:30AM
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I work on Scala projects. Adding a log means stopping the service, recompiling and restarting. For projects using Play (the biggest one is one of them) that means waiting for the hot-reload to complete. In both cases it easily takes at least 30s on the smallest projects, with a fast machine. With my previous machine Play's hot reload on our biggest app could take 1 to 3mn.
I use the debugger in Intellij, using breakpoints which only log some context and do not stop the current thread. I can add / remove them without recompiling. There's no interruption in my flow (thus no excuse to check HN because "compiling...")
When I show this to colleagues they think it's really cool. Then they go back to using print statements anyway /shrug
Re:The Grug Brained Developer (2022)
by norir on Wednesday June 18, 2025 @01:00PM
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This reminds me why I abandoned scala. That being said, even a small sbt project can cold boot in under 10 seconds on a six year old laptop. I shudder to think of the bloat in play if 30 seconds is the norm for a hot reload.
I use the debugger in Intellij, using breakpoints which only log some context and do not stop the current thread. I can add / remove them without recompiling. There's no interruption in my flow (thus no excuse to check HN because "compiling...")
When I show this to colleagues they think it's really cool. Then they go back to using print statements anyway /shrug