That’s why working with lisp feels like touching alien tech - it works, it’s designed for that exact workflow.

(It’s also essentially pointless when your unit of deployment is a disposable container and not a long running lisp system, but it at least makes development a bit nicer)

> The algorithms and all intermediate products would have to match, at every step of the programs

This is where the functional programming model really shines - there typically isn't a bunch of hidden state floating around to break hot-reloading