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ILX Launcher – a developer cockpit for Python apps (hot reload, crash capture)

ILX Launcher is an open-source developer tool for Python applications, featuring hot reloading for instant code updates and crash capture to automatically detect and report errors during development.

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ILX Launcher is an open-source desktop tool that acts as a "cockpit" for Python application developers. It provides a GUI that can launch Python scripts, automatically reload them when code changes (hot reload), and capture crash logs — streamlining the edit-run-debug cycle without needing a full IDE. The project lives on GitHub under the account ilxstudio. For developers working with Python, especially those building desktop or long-running apps, this type of tool reduces friction compared to manually restarting scripts from a terminal or relying on heavier development environments.

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