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The only mainstream-ish language where that still happens? R. Too bad, there's a lot more use cases for this sort of thing now - versioning, anything non-pers
by waldrews 2mo ago
The only mainstream-ish language where that still happens? R. Too bad, there's a lot more use cases for this sort of thing now - versioning, anything non-persistent agents touch, collaboration, auditable enterprise LOB. It's 2026, why are we (or our agents) still writing serialization code? Even if the AI's write the boilerplate, the state management fragility is often a tax/risk.
- e12e 2mo agoYou could argue that a Claude code session also works like a lisp/smalltalk image.
- mettamage 2mo agoI fail to see it. But that could really be me. Could you explain how?
- e12e 2mo agoThe loop and LLM is the runtime, the code on disk/in git is the external state - and the session (dumped and loaded as json) is the image. The LLM terminal/chat is the repl, and the shell language is natural text input. Something like that?
- NetMageSCW 2mo agoIs APL no longer mainstream-ish?