Unfortunately I'm specifically thinking of upgrading stuff in the browser
and I assume membranes only work with es6.

Your tools do look very interesting.  Were they done for use in an app?

On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 10:05 PM, Brandon Benvie
<[email protected]>wrote:

> In theory it would be possible with some work. If I was doing it, my
> starting point would be to implement a membrane targeted at hot swapping
> objects and functions (using tools I've already made for such tasks
> https://github.com/Benvie/meta-objects). That is, I'd make it so I could
> swap out the actual object or function that is mirrored, yet retain
> same-identity externally. That is the first major hurdle to really
> achieving true hot swapping, because there's no way to come in after the
> fact and try and play cleanup duty and expect it to work. Once the
> references are disseminated there's nothing that can be done except for
> rebooting the context. But if you're able to protect and control those
> references (using the membrane concept) you can sidestep around the issue
> and get on to the other difficulties with the idea. I do think it's
> possible to do.
>
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