Languages normally: Yeah serialization is hard, we
Python: Okay what if I stored my entire state in a file, including the program itself
@natty See #Lisp & #Smalltalk worlds and images.
They also weren't buggy about it.
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@lispi314 @natty also #Prolog, where the program state can effectively be dealt with as "just" a cache of computations that gets refreshed on every program start.
That is ignoring the gnarly bits like external state that no environment has a chance of getting right.
Also #Erlang, the other extreme where you can design for not letting the system go down at all.
