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by brunocvcunha 1959 days ago
Not a user of Reloadr, but hot code reloading is a big thing on my Java development process. There are servers and use cases that take a long time to start or setup, and having the possibility to debug -> edit code -> re-execute a specific method using the same context goes a long way.

For production usage, maybe that wouldn't be considered safe, but there are companies that provide services with this purpose (e.g. JRebel).

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JRebel literally saved our ** years ago. Compile, restart cycles would have killed us, with JRebel we were able to stay in the zone and iterate way way faster. The difference between rage quitting and going home at 430.