We don't really overcomplicate it. A merge into development will pull the code onto the development server and then either restart lisp or recompile (depends on the application), and the same thing will happen when merged to prod.

We're currently experimenting with Guix for server configuration and it's nice but sometimes the context switch from CL to Guile does trip you up for 0.0001ms.

I think that the only difference with CL vs another language is that we can connect to the running image and create/recompile functions, and that can land you in a scenario where you think you have committed a function because it works on the image and so you build on it, then the image restarts and suddenly a whole bunch of code doesn't work. That will happen exactly once before you draw up a guide on how the team is able to use Sly/Slime.

...Me. It was me. I didn't commit the function.