On 8/9/2016 3:13 AM, Guyren Howe wrote:
Is there any way to separate the running Racket code from the IDE that is
authoring it?
What I'd like is something like a Smalltalk image, that packages code and
state, but it runs whether or not I'm connected to it; when I'm connected, I
can edit, debug, use breakpoints etc with the values and code on the server.
And I can disconnect and it just keeps going.
How close to that can I get with Racket? If I can't get that, is there some
close alternative with a nice web IDE or at least API?
I'm not a Racket expert, but I don't think there's an easy way to do it.
Racket isn't image based in the same sense as Smalltalk: I'm not aware
of a way to save/restore the runtime state without the need to design in
serialization of your data structures. Likewise, if you want to edit
the running program, I think you need somehow to design in that ability.
Racket does have a (simple) COM interface - at least on Windows - that
could be used to implement remote access to a running program, but I'm
not familiar with it and I don't know whether it's compatible with DCOM
[for remote access from another machine]. And I don't think it works on
Unix/Linux.
A number of Lisps provide ways to save/restore the runtime state, but
how is implementation dependent - AFAIK it is not a requirement of
Common Lisp. However, there is a remote access package called SLIME
available for many implementations. SLIME provides a client for Emacs -
I'm not aware of others, but the API is open so you could write your own
if needed.
Maybe someone else has better information,
George
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