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Scaevolus on Dec 17, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Notch live coding for Ludum dare 22

Watching other programmers code is a great way to learn new things about your tools.

From his LD21 stream I learned that Eclipse can do hot code reloading-- Notch uses this extensively to iterate with cycles measured in seconds.

pantaloons on Dec 17, 2011 [–]

You say "iterate" but from what I observed it was mostly used for shotgun debugging -- not necessarily a bad idea when doing graphics programming on a strict time limit.

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