wieghant

My background is web development. One of my biggest peeves when it came to Java was the fact I was heavily reliant on IDE for the longest time, that meant if my IDE couldn't make sense of the project I imported, neither could I.

I'd like to start from bottom-up with game development. What engine would you guys recommend to use that had CLI capabilities for live reloading/hotswapping(if that's even a thing)?

I understand eventually I will need to use a scene builder and shader/animation editors and whatnot, but I want to understand it on CLI/code level first.