[ellg]

what does compilation have to do with iteration speed? There's a lot of ways to get a similar feedback loop that youd get in something like react, like separating out your core gameplay loop into its own compilation unit / dll and reloading it on any changes inside your application

[jpablo]

Yeah... that's way, way, way more complex than npm run dev

[poly2it]

NPM is absurdly complex in comparison, it's just neatly abstracted. Maybe somebody will write a cross-platform reactive layer which can compile both natively and to the web?

[ellg]

if i wrap a bunch of abstractions in a `make run` command whats the difference

[zdragnar]

Hot reloading is about the only difference if you're doing incremental builds.

For that, some languages are blocked by runtimes that don't support it. C can do it [0] so it's not a limitation of the static/dynamic divide.

[0] https://www.slembcke.net/blog/HotLoadC/