This seems to be about "deploy-flow" or something, rather than the actual workflow, which currently is kind of horrible in Rust thanks to slow compile times and no availability of a REPL.

I've mostly written lisp in my career, with some dips into PHP, JavaScript and other various languages when needed, but mostly interactive lisp environments so far (and lately, mostly Clojure).

How do people develop in Rust? I'm trying to learn it, but it's hard to jump into code-bases and understand the code as I cannot run snippets. Lots of copy and pasting into new "main" files is being done in order to run small snippets of code, to see what they do.

Another way is to isolate parts into smaller test cases, but now I have two pieces of code in two places, one in the actual program and one in the test case. And still I cannot just select code to evaluate when I need to dig deeper into the statements.

Difficulty to evaluate snippets of code together with the slow compile times makes it really hard (for someone used to lisps) to learn and understand Rust.

How does your workflow (when writing/reading code) actually look day-to-day? If you're writing a web server, are you really stopping the server, compiling again, run the full server when doing changes the logic for the server? That seems absolutely bananas and I'm sure I'm missing something vital for my own environment.

His hot reloading rust article is one of my favourites https://fasterthanli.me/articles/so-you-want-to-live-reload-...

This chap is up there with Eli Benderski’s blog for me, i really enjoy fasterthanlime’s long form articles.

Amazing article! Will save for later reading. I jumped straight to the video to get an overview how it's working, and it seems to reload the contents of the file when it changes, which is cool and surely an improvement. Do people use this when they write web servers? Was trying to find if there is any lib/tool you can include/run to get the functionality, but seems very involved right now.

Seems to be missing the vital functionality of being able to evaluate snippets though, which is the biggest feature missing in Rust.

How exactly do you evaluate snippets in some environment even with REPL? I mean most code in a large system is part of a context that is required at the very least to generate the inputs for your functions. Can't imagine how you could evaluate the these snippets outside of this program environment except in the most trivial cases when dealing with some simple pure functions with only few simple parameters.