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Comment by aidos | Hacker News Reader

Even though I don’t use Dart myself I very much approve of this initiative.

I live in my Python REPL (ipython) and I couldn’t live without my hot reloading without losing state. Allows for hacking about a bit directly in the REPL. Once something starts to take shape you can push it into a file, import it into your REPL then hack about with it in a text editor.

The hot reloading is great when you have a load of state in classes and you can change code in the editor and have that immediately updated on your existing objects in the REPL.

After learning how to do this in lisp I've been missing it in python. Do you use anything alongside ipython to make this happen?

  from importlib import reload

Reload paired with inotify are the building blocks, to wire up yourself.

Config file here with a couple of lines to add it to ipython automatically.

https://github.com/aidos/dotfiles/blob/master/_config/ipytho...

Thanks!

jupyter-dart-kernel: https://github.com/vickumar1981/jupyter-dart-kernel :

  pip install jupyter-console jupyterlab -e https://github.com/vickumar1981/jupyter-dart-kernel#egg=jupyterdartkernel
  jupyter console --kernel jupyterdartkernel
  jupyter kernelspec --list

IPython/extensions/autoreload.py: https://github.com/ipython/ipython/blob/main/IPython/extensi... docs: https://ipython.readthedocs.io/en/stable/config/extensions/a...

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