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Funny, and the persistent memory-image everyone outside the Smalltalk/Lisp community seems to hate, it's your normal filesystem now.

• pjmlp 1y ago
  The irony is that anyone using IDEs is using the same idea, as all of them use a virtual filesystem layer to simulate the same capabilities as the image approach.
  • shwaj 1y ago
    Not really, because you still recompile and start the program from scratch, rather than modifying the code that executes on the still-existing data structures. Edit: rather than just naysaying, it occurred to me to reference the notion of Orthogonal Persistence, which the image-based approach provides (not without drawbacks) but IDEs typically don’t. Previous HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39615228 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39615228
    • pjmlp 1y ago
      Kind of, see Cadilac model for Energize C++, born out of Lucid Lisp. https://dreamsongs.com/Cadillac.html https://dreamsongs.com/Cadillac.html