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by kyllo 4253 days ago
Yes. Smalltalk environments export an image that's a snapshot of the entire state of the VM. It's like a reloadable core dump of the VM. It's a binary though, not plaintext. But there is also a sophisticated distributed versioning system for Smalltalk code, which can save versioned snapshots of slices of your code and state that can be imported into different images: http://wiresong.ca/monticello/