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Tilt: dev environment as code

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136 points saikatsg | 3 comments | 26 Apr 25 19:14 UTC | HN request time: 0.438s | source
1. satvikpendem ◴[26 Apr 25 20:58 UTC] No.43807161[source]▶
Isn't this essentially dev containers?
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2. Kuraj ◴[26 Apr 25 21:00 UTC] No.43807180[source]▶
Yeah it would be really useful to have in the readme what kind of problems this solves that dev containers don't solve already
3. cirego ◴[26 Apr 25 21:30 UTC] No.43807390[source]▶
My understanding is that dev containers are more about configuring your development environment with the right toolchains to build and run services.

Tilt is a monitor process that builds and starts your services, with a hot-reload loop that rebuilds and restarts your services when the underlying code changes. The hot reload loop even works for statically compiled languages.