The Image Is Still Running
How Common Lisp’s long-lived world outlasted restart-culture tooling, and why professionals walk back into the REPL with Doom Emacs as the flight deck.
Compile a definition into a world that does not die when you save. Redefine it while the process still runs. Restarts are the debugger’s checklist, not an apology dialog. Other books teach the language and strand you with the editor. This manual refuses the split.
By Micah Killian Essentials 18 min