Re: What the best way to support hot reloading in Chicken?

> On Aug 19, 2026, at 11:29 AM, Srayan Jana via Chicken-users <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I don’t mind this was interesting to read about lol.
> 
> This sounds dumb, but I wonder if you could do on the fly compilation turning csi code into compiled c files with some sort of runtime hook to clang so you could get near native performance hot reloading ….

mooted. the usual compiler candidate is tcc; current issue w/ `complex’ so no w/ C6 atm.

> But that sounds like a terrible idea lowkey and horribly complicated 

complicated, even horribly, doesn’t make the idea bad 

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> From: Kristian Lein-Mathisen <[email protected]>
> Sent: Wednesday, 19 August 2026 11:00:21
> To: Mario Domenech Goulart <[email protected]>
> Cc: Kristian Lein-Mathisen via Chicken-users <[email protected]>; Srayan Jana <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: What the best way to support hot reloading in Chicken?
>  
> 
> All the amazing tooling you've built, Mario! I can see these are the dependencies:
> 
> - lsp-server
> - schematra: https://github.com/schematra/schematra/issues/11
> 
> I'm surprised to see it being used as a hard dependency. Schematra doesn't seem to be using it, and I hope there is a way to take it out of lsp-server too perhaps.
> 
> I really think the nrepl->tcprepl is a good idea as I suspect a lot confusion comes from Clojures nrepl feature/protocol and people think it's the same.
> 
> I will see if I can add a note in nrepl's documentation regarding its intended use.
> 
> Sorry for hijacking your thread, Srayan,
> and thanks for your remarks Marios
> K.
> 
> 
> and the rest are transitive dependencies.
> 
> On Wed, Aug 12, 2026, 22:25 Mario Domenech Goulart <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> Hi Kristian,
> 
> On Wed, 12 Aug 2026 20:11:08 +0200 Kristian Lein-Mathisen <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> 
> > Thanks for pointing that out. So renaming eggs is non-trivial, which is fair. But I'd be surprised, honestly, if any eggs
> > actually depend on nrepl - it's just a debugging/development tool, hopefully useful in the process of writing an egg, but
> > not more.
> 
> Actually at least 5 eggs depend on nrepl according to
> http://salmonella-linux-x86-64.call-cc.org/chicken-5/gcc/linux/x86-64/2026/08/12/salmonella-report/ranks/rev-deps.html
> 
> > I'll happily keep two separate branches, one for C5 and one for C6. I'll look into this when I get around to porting my
> > eggs.
> 
> Not sure if you are talking about two separate branches for nrepl or
> about your eggs that depend on nrepl.  If the former, then having two
> branches for nrepl egg won't solve the problem.  The issue affects
> _users_ of nrepl.
> 
> For example, consider an egg which depends on nrepl and works unmodified
> on both C5 and C6 (not a very unusual case -- often C5 eggs require very
> little modifications, if any, to work with C6) .  If you rename nrepl to
> tcprepl, the egg which depend on it will need two .egg files: the C5 one
> to specify the dependency on nprepl; and the C6 one to specify the
> dependency on tcprepl.  chicken-install will only look for
> <egg-name>.egg, so the user of your egg will have to branch.
> 
> All the best.
> Mario
> -- 
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