Re: Reloading application with orbit command

[steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@...>]

On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 8:11 PM, Phoenix Sol <phoenix@burninglabs.com> wrote:
> I've yet to mess with it, but it's on my list. It seems like Rob
> Hoelz's linotify module and dofile would provide the necessary material
> for a simple live-coding system on Linux.

It can even be simpler than that.  I did a little toy web framework
for my embedded Gumstixes and all I had to do was save the timestamp
of the script when first loaded, and thereafter just recheck the
timestamp.   In this case, the 'server' was a fairly involved process
that wasn't as easy to 'just restart' as (say) Xavante, so being able
to change a script and then test it in the browser without restarting
was very useful.