I participated in the most recent Bevy game jam and the community has a new tool that came out of Dioxus called subsecond which as the name suggests provides sub-second hot reloading of systems. It made prototyping very pleasant. Especially when iterating on UI.
replyhttps://github.com/TheBevyFlock/bevy_simple_subsecond_system
I think that’s what zig team is also doing to allow very fast build times: remove LLVM.
replyYes, Zig author commented[0] that a while ago
replyNice, I checked a while ago and was no support for macOS aarch64, but seems that now it is supported.
replyWait. You were going to ditch rust because of 16 second build times?
reply"Wait. You were going to ditch subversion for git because of 16 second branch merge times?"
replyPerformance matters.
Over time that adds up when your coding consists of REPL like workflow.
replyPulling out Instagram 100 times in every workday, yes, it's a total disaster
replyIt may also contribute to smoking. :D Or (over-)eating... or whatever your vice is.
reply16 seconds is infuriating for something that needs to be manually tested like does this jump feel too floaty.
replyBut it’s also probable that 16 seconds was fairly early in development and it would get much worse from there.