hotpatch vs Revise.jl

hotpatch

In-place hotpatching for Python functions (by mpolney)

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Revise.jl

Automatically update function definitions in a running Julia session (by timholy)

developer-tools productivity-booster JIT Reloading

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hotpatch		Revise.jl
	Project
1	Mentions	6
4	Stars	1,150
-	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	7.9
over 5 years ago	Latest Commit	20 days ago
Python	Language	Julia
MIT License	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 or later

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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

hotpatch

Posts with mentions or reviews of hotpatch. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-02-05.

Reloadr – Hot code reloading tool for Python
15 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Feb 2021

- https://github.com/mpolney/hotpatch

Revise.jl

Posts with mentions or reviews of Revise.jl. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-09-08.

Julia and Mojo (Modular) Mandelbrot Benchmark
10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Sep 2023
Very confused about using Modules (newbie from Python)
1 project | /r/Julia | 23 Sep 2022

If you want to have changes in your module reflected in the REPL look into using Revise.jl.
Tutorial Series to learn Common Lisp quickly
17 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Apr 2022
Do you use Julia for general purpose tasks?
3 projects | /r/Julia | 11 Mar 2022

Do you try using Revise.jl? Reloads function definitions for you. Indispensable.
Reloadr – Hot code reloading tool for Python
15 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Feb 2021

In Julia, this can be done with even less efforts on the user-side by loading Revise (https://github.com/timholy/Revise.jl) before any other package you load.
Julia Update: Adoption Keeps Climbing; Is It a Python Challenger?
17 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Jan 2021

Julia has some packages to address this now.
https://github.com/timholy/Revise.jl

What are some alternatives?

When comparing hotpatch and Revise.jl you can also consider the following projects:

RuntimeCompiledCPlusPlus - Change C++ code at runtime

Genie.jl - 🧞The highly productive Julia web framework

jurigged - Hot reloading for Python

PyCall.jl - Package to call Python functions from the Julia language

ipython - Official repository for IPython itself. Other repos in the IPython organization contain things like the website, documentation builds, etc.

Chain.jl - A Julia package for piping a value through a series of transformation expressions using a more convenient syntax than Julia's native piping functionality.

reloadr - Hot code reloading tool for Python

PackageCompiler.jl - Compile your Julia Package

inquest - Inquest lets you add log statements to python without restarting your python instance. It helps you quickly uncover what is going wrong.

ipdb - Integration of IPython pdb

RCall.jl - Call R from Julia