> Since I have you, do you have any personal insights on why so many programmers retreat to this territory—simply deciding that the other person is a dumb and confused noob and proceeding to more or less declare that that's the case? (It reads as insecurity/projecting, but it's hard to nail down without more concrete information about the other person.
I think it's your attitude that does it, to be honest. For someone who seems to have issues understanding how `dlopen` and friends solves the same problem you're awfully dismissive yourself. I understand the blog post just fine, and it's honestly a way more complicated and less solid solution to something that has better solutions, including the one I mentioned (and yes, they solve the same problem).
You stated statically typed languages have issues hot-reloading code and I've explained to you that this is patently not true (and obvious to anyone who has spent the minimum amount of time you need in order to reload DLLs on-the-fly). You not being willing to watch a video of this isn't really a problem I'm trying to solve or otherwise handle.
> I know how shared libraries work
Then you should have no problem understanding why the responses you've received are relevant for hot-reloading. Maybe you should actually try to understand how shared libraries work more, then, because your confusion and your lack of understanding of it point to you not really understanding how you could use them yet.
Just to be clear, I'm trying to not be snarky, but your attitude about this is really getting on my nerves when coupled with your lack of understanding when you're the one with the original BS line about hot-reloading. I don't know why you can't just say "Oh, hey, I was basically just bullshitting because I've never done hot-reloading in a native language". It's not hard to recompile a DLL on file changes and reloading them when they change in a program. It's also not hard to compile a DLL. You implying that any of these things are hard shows that you really ought not to speak so definitively on any of them, and maybe you should tone down your dismissive tone when faced with proof of your misunderstanding.