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That is very helpful. Thank you. Most of my exposure to Lisp has been Scheme and Racket and minimal at that. Are these images you describe something that is par

• whartung 3y ago
  Images are pretty routine amongst most of them (though not all). In the end what you have is a base image, and then a set of code and instructions to transform that image into your runtime image, then you distribute that image as your "application". I have never needed to do this, as all of my work has been utilitarian in nature, rather than some kind of monolith distributed to others. I simply load my code on to the stock image and go from there. But even then, for folks that do that, they may well load up the stock image with useful and common, personal, utilities, and snapshot that. Their "application" is their essential working environment. Smalltalk does, and Forth can work from this concept of an image. Schemes tend to not be this way. They are interactive, but the image concept is not as ingrained in the Scheme world. Instead, it's more like doing development in something like Bash -- an interactive environment to be sure, but one that always resets to the baseline state and must be reloaded when started. There are certainly Schemes that can do this, it's just not as routine.