Alcantarea

Seiya Ishibashi

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706 installs
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706 downloads
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Alcantarea - A Visual Studio Add-In for Runtime C++ Code Editing

Alcantarea is an add-in for Visual Studio that allow you to apply C++ code changes to running programs. This functionality makes development iteration cycle drastically faster, and makes C++ programming more fun.

Visual Studio has similar functionality called Edit and Continue. Alcantarea has some advantages and disadvantages.
Notable advantages:

  • Alcantarea supports x64 native code
  • Alcantarea works with optimized code (/ZI option is not required)

Notable disadvantages:

  • Source code debugging will not work after applying changes
  • Alcantarea does not support managed code

Although these disadvantages are serious, these advantages are very helpful especially for game developers.

 

more info: http://primitive-games.jp/alcantarea/