<aside> 💡 In the long dark of Winter 2024, I went down a programming rabbit hole. It wasn’t at optimal mental health, I don’t think this particularly helped, but I learned a lot.
This is the story of one programmer Quietly Going Insane With Tools & Automation:
Quietly Going Insane With Tools & Automation
Strings, Actually, Do Not Exist
Suffering: The First Two Weeks Of Zig
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As a programmer, I sometimes go a bit off the deep end.
This is a story about me doing just that, this week.
Unreal has this awesome feature called Live Coding which will hot reload C++ compilation changes into the Unreal Editor without having to restart the editor.
Anyone who dislikes this feature has not considered the alternative.
But it is a bit janky, as I describe in Actually Writing Some Damn Code :
<aside> ‼️ I create a variable using one of my data structures:
Compiles green, I save all, all good.
Restart Unreal:
With the helpful compiler message:
Cool.
Real Cool.
That’s cool.
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My understanding is this is caused by the Live Coding compiler adding layers and layers of my garbage changes until something breaks.
Like a true developer, my first thought is to nuke the problem from orbit.
Such is the recommended fix found on the Unreal Dev Wiki:
Cleaning Your Project | Unreal Engine Community Wiki
Delete a few folders, and we are SO back?
This is the way.