[haffla]

The argument that you don't have to restart the server after editing a file? I mean I've used a couple of web dev environments and I know for a fact that Rails, Django and Express all come with some sort of automatic reloading in development - provided by the framework itself or by a library. Quite sure there is a solution for most environments.

[francislavoie]

You still need to contend with build and startup times with those setups though, even if a rebuild is triggered on file save. With PHP, there's no such thing as build or startup, because it's interpreted.

[pdimitar]

An Elixir Phoenix's page live-reload never took more than one second even on a fairly weak i3 laptop for me. And on my desktop Mac it usually takes 0.2s.

Not that big a deal at all.