Implementation of hot reloading in compiled programming languages

• Date: 2026
• Main Authors: Shcherbak, D.V., Zhereb, K.A.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: PROBLEMS IN PROGRAMMING 2026
• Subjects: hot reloading; hot swapping; dynamic software updates; dynamic library reload; runtime code patching; programming languages; UDC 004.43
• Online Access: https://pp.isofts.kiev.ua/index.php/ojs1/article/view/1028
• Journal Title: Problems in programming

Hot reloading is a powerful software developing tool which allows the programmer to make changes to the codebase, and see those changes be applied to the program while it is running. This feature is naturally easy to implement in interpreted programming languages, such as Python, JavaScript and Ruby...