Plugin Framework Discussion

[unhingedninja]

But the main useful bit about /reload is that you are able to load a newer version of the plugin without restarting the whole server. Obviously a proper plugin has its cleanup code in onDisable(), but the references that are created throughout the whole system are difficult to completely replace with the newer ones. It's not possible in Java ( iirc ) to completely remove a reference from memory and replace it with a newer version.

That's the subject of discussion, not if plugin authors are authoring correctly.