Hi Chicken Friends!
What is possible in terms of connecting to a REPL supplied by a running compiled Chicken program? Is it one of the below?
--1-- It's the same as any compiled C program, there's no REPL to connect to. Once you've compiled to an executable, you've exited lisp-land. But at least you enjoyed your visit.
--2-- There's an egg for it. Your program could include this egg to support a connection. From there you could inspect, evaluate, redefine things to affect the running program. Once your program is restarted, your changes are gone. It's your original program that gets started.
--3-- There's no such egg like [2] but it's possible.
--4-- You can connect, make changes, and save the instance as something new on the machine that's running your original program. It won't be as fast as your original compiled output but at least this new thing can be restarted in the state you left it; you could run it instead of your original program. Perhaps it's your original program that gets started initially, and then a REPL session is re-played on top of it to resurrect your desired state.
--5-- There's nothing like [4] yet but it's possible.
Or is there something else?
Thanks in advance!