[shwaj]

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

[pjmlp]

Kind of, see Cadilac model for Energize C++, born out of Lucid Lisp.

https://dreamsongs.com/Cadillac.html