Both LISP and Smalltalk were entirely based around having this kind of hands-on, interactive, full development environment available not in prod as well. In som

Both LISP and Smalltalk were entirely based around having this kind of hands-on, interactive, full development environment available not in prod as well. In some sense what you are doing was the future people thought we would have, and it is a regression in some aspects that most production software runs in this bare bones system where someone can't stop it at an arbitrary point, and then have all the tools originally used to create that software available to them to observe the system.