Hi, kubkon here, the author of Zig's MachO linker. I just wanted to explain our reasoning here a little bit. As you have hopefully noticed in the release notes, there are 5 core team members that are paid either full-…
Great question. With the presented approach in Zig, since you work on the binary directly, after you finish your hot-code reloading session, you can still run the generated binary from disk (and debug it or whatnot) as…
Nice! V does it the same way as Nim though, right? From quickly browsing over the sources, it looks like it is based on dynamic library hot swapping https://github.com/vlang/v/tree/master/vlib/v/live
Wait, but what about debuggers then? Plus hot-code reloading should only ever be used for quick development cycles when prototyping your app in debug mode, so very much what a debugger is used for, right? Additionally,…
Yep, you are absolutely right, and hence why this is a proof-of-concept after all and a start really. With the proper tweaks to the linker though I am sure it would be possible orchestrate updates in such a way as to…
Hey, author of the article here. Thanks for the suggestion! I actually didn't know about the MAP_JIT flag to mmap before and will defo consider it. As to elevating your privs - this is just a temp solution until I work…
One tiny correction that we do support seamless C/C++ cross-compilation to macOS now with the advent of our own in-house linker `zig ld`. :-)
Hey smeenai! I am the author of the MachO linker in Zig. First of, I am closely following your work in LLVM and I am really delighted that someone of your aptitude took over the backend - I definitely intend to take it…
Hi, kubkon here, the author of Zig's MachO linker. I just wanted to explain our reasoning here a little bit. As you have hopefully noticed in the release notes, there are 5 core team members that are paid either full-…
Great question. With the presented approach in Zig, since you work on the binary directly, after you finish your hot-code reloading session, you can still run the generated binary from disk (and debug it or whatnot) as…
Nice! V does it the same way as Nim though, right? From quickly browsing over the sources, it looks like it is based on dynamic library hot swapping https://github.com/vlang/v/tree/master/vlib/v/live
Wait, but what about debuggers then? Plus hot-code reloading should only ever be used for quick development cycles when prototyping your app in debug mode, so very much what a debugger is used for, right? Additionally,…
Yep, you are absolutely right, and hence why this is a proof-of-concept after all and a start really. With the proper tweaks to the linker though I am sure it would be possible orchestrate updates in such a way as to…
Hey, author of the article here. Thanks for the suggestion! I actually didn't know about the MAP_JIT flag to mmap before and will defo consider it. As to elevating your privs - this is just a temp solution until I work…
One tiny correction that we do support seamless C/C++ cross-compilation to macOS now with the advent of our own in-house linker `zig ld`. :-)
Hey smeenai! I am the author of the MachO linker in Zig. First of, I am closely following your work in LLVM and I am really delighted that someone of your aptitude took over the backend - I definitely intend to take it…