blink VS Bonzomatic

Compare blink vs Bonzomatic and see what are their differences.

blink

A tool which allows you to edit source code of any MSVC C++ project live at runtime (by crosire)
C++ linker Pdb live-coding
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Bonzomatic

Live shader coding tool and Shader Showdown workhorse (by Gargaj)
demoscene live-coding Livecoding Shader Shadertoy Graphics DirectX OpenGL C++ Hlsl Glsl
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blink Bonzomatic
1 1
1,032 1,335
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5.2 3.9
5 months ago about 2 months ago
C++ C++
BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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blink

Posts with mentions or reviews of blink. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-08-10.
  • A Modern C Development Environment
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Aug 2023
    > 9. The debugger can modify a variable while the program is running.

    > 11. The debugger can modify a function while the program is running (any new calls are done to that function).

    Another words: hot code reloading / swapping [1].

    And I would add:

    > You record a failure once, then debug the recording, deterministically, as many times as you want. The same execution is replayed every time. [2]

    [1] e.g. https://github.com/ddovod/jet-live, https://github.com/crosire/blink, https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/68

Bonzomatic

Posts with mentions or reviews of Bonzomatic. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-28.
  • Creative coding, making loops with Processing
    10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Jan 2023
    surprised to not see anyone mention https://shadertoy.com

    also check out bonzomatic:

    https://github.com/Gargaj/Bonzomatic

    You can find some live bonzomatic shader coding vids on youtube too:

    https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=bonzomatic

What are some alternatives?

When comparing blink and Bonzomatic you can also consider the following projects:

jet-live - c++ hot code reload for linux and macos

BezierCurveDemo1997 - Utah Teapot and Mystify Screensaver, 16-Bit DOS, Personal Project 1997 https://files.scene.org/view/mirrors/hornet/code/tutors/math/azr_bcrv.zip

RuntimeCompiledCPlusPlus - Change C++ code at runtime

genuary2022 - My entries for Genuary2022

blink vs jet-live Bonzomatic vs BezierCurveDemo1997 blink vs RuntimeCompiledCPlusPlus Bonzomatic vs genuary2022