Comment by baq

Comment by baq 3 months ago

Working on a largeish typescript node project right now and no support for recompiling a single function in a live system means I have a good minute of downtime on every change. The lisp paradigm would be so refreshing here.

dismalaf 3 months ago

You could always use regular JS and have that...

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baq 3 months ago

1) over my dead body and 2) it doesn’t make sense for it to be possible in JS and not possible in TS.

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- dismalaf 3 months ago
  
  2) I thought the issue was compilation from TS -> JS. So what's the issue? I remember live coding in JS like 15 years ago, have dev environments just gotten weird and convoluted?
  
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  baq 3 months ago
  
  No idea. My working theory is the gotta go fast folks at v8 don’t care about live hot reload because that doesn’t give them ad revenue, so they just wontfixed the whole thing and there is no alternative on the backend if you want typescript.
  
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