Comment by eviks

2 days ago

> the prolonged build time of CI and edit-compile-run debugging cycles

Does Linux kernel development have hot reload on the C side as a comparison?

It used to, until Oracle bought it out. It is not usable for changes to the ABI though; only kernel functions. The use case was hot-patching a running kernel to fix a security vulnerability in e.g. a device driver, but it could be used to modify almost any function.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ksplice