Reloaded for dub

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On Friday, 20 February 2015 at 14:00:33 UTC, Kingsley wrote:
> Hi
>
> Just thought I would share this in case anyone else finds it 
> useful. I wrote a tiny utility that detects changes to D files 
> and then rebuilds and re-executes the main binary using dub.
>
> I use for developing with vibe.d and other dub D project that 
> have an executable binary.
>
> The code is here:   https://github.com/kingsleyh/reloaded
>
> essentially you just run dub in the root and it builds the 
> reloaded binary. Then you just copy that binary to the root of 
> your dub project and ./reloaded and then as soon as you make a 
> change to a D file your code will be built and executed.

You seem to especially target Vibe.d and your approach is based 
on *restarting* the server. It should be possible to do even 
better. Reload the server without stopping.

Basic idea: Compile your server application as a shared library. 
Run a small wrapper, which uses the shared library. If a file 
changes, recompile the library and load it into the wrapper.