Xamarin Hot Code Reloading
KarateCowboy opened this issue · 3 comments
Hello,
Thank you for making this wonderful framework. I have searched high and low, but I cannot find anything about if it is possible to use enable hot code reloading with Fabulous. There are some stack overflow posts about the C# Xamarin and hot reloading. They say things like you must have all the Xamarin libraries at version five. I do not know if that version is compatible with Fabulous. I would start poking around with my packages.config file but my gut tells me that would be a Rabbit Hole of Pain.
Any advice and/or warnings?
As far as I know .NET Hot Reload and XAML Hot Reload are for C# / XAML only, so it's not compatible with F# or Fabulous.
We had an equivalent in Fabulous v1 called Fabulous.LiveUpdate, but we had to abandon it for v2.
Unfortunately, this kind of tool requires a lot of compiler knowledge (basically hot reloading is an interpreter instead of compiler) and we are very few to contribute to Fabulous with very little time.
I was also looking forward to hot reload.
But it may depends on fsharp core team:
dotnet/fsharp#11636
Thank you @TimLariviere for informing me of the situation. I sometimes joke that 'F' is for fun and 'sharp' is to cut through the competition, but 'F' could also mean "Few". At least now I know it's not just me doing something wrong with my build process!
@albertwoo It's good to know I'm not alone.