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This looks really awesome; looks like Hotswap for the JVM.

I wonder how they handle updating anonymous function references--in the JVM, everything ends up being a class name (e.g. Foo$1 whatever), so even "anonymous" classes technically have an identifier to say "here's the new code". I wonder what that is for Light Table/the V8 VM.

I'd love to see this hotswap behavior built into all JS wire/debugger protocols. Maybe a W3C spec?

Light table is really awesome, and really driving the bleeding edge, but debugging/inspecting/hotswapping seems like something other editors could do as well.



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