Tsoding Daily
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2:16:18 · 94K views · Jul 25, 2023
A long Tsoding Daily programming stream in which he implements hot code reloading in C by loading a dynamic library at runtime without stopping the main program. It also touches on migrating struct versions across reloads.
HN commenters cite it as a hands-on example of hot reloading and live coding in C.
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For anyone interested in this: Tsoding (Twitch and YouTube streamer of "recreational programming") demonstrates this in one of his projects, where he hot reloads a dynamic library without interrupting the main program, to test different functionality. this video
There is a tsoding daily video with hot code reloading in C [0]. He dicusses techniques for this. one of which is a "migration" approach, similar to database migrations. Where, for example, you have a version number in your struct. and a function for migrating from an old version to a new version. I don't think he implements it in that video though. [0] this video
Tsoding made a video about hot code reloading in C ( this video ) and also used the same concept in "My Own 3b1b Animation Engine but in C" ( [LINK] ).