> you saved your work by snapshotting the entire VM state That doesn't seem likely, that wasn't the recommended approach to managing source code in Smalltalk —

> you saved your work by snapshotting the entire VM state That doesn't seem likely, that wasn't the recommended approach to managing source code in Smalltalk — but I have no personal experience with Self. Seems like it might depend on which version of Self is being discussed. "To briefly recap, the Self transporter allows the programmer to take a program that adds some functionality to a snapshot and move that program to another snapshot. It accomplishes this task by writing the slots that comprise the program to a source file that can be read in and evaluated in the new snapshot to recreate the program." https://bluishcoder.co.nz/self/transporter.pdf https://bluishcoder.co.nz/self/transporter.pdf