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by jpablo 107 days ago
Yeah... that's way, way, way more complex than npm run dev
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poly2it 107 days ago
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?
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ellg 107 days ago
if i wrap a bunch of abstractions in a `make run` command whats the difference
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zdragnar 107 days ago
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/

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