> Could something like Smalltalk work in such a way that the "image" is a series of files and folders, so if something goes nuts we can do what we always do and

> Could something like Smalltalk work in such a way that the "image" is a series of files and folders, so if something goes nuts we can do what we always do and poke around in the data? Well, speaking for Squeak: The image is just a file. You can open it and poke around in it. I don't recall why I had to do it exactly (did some meta-programming with Smalltalk at university... maybe my program overwrote some fundamental functions in Object or similar), but I don't remember it to be terribly complicated. Definitely not as simple as opening a JSON file, but not as hard as decrypting the assembly of a compiled C-program or analyzing the memory of a crashed program.