Agreed, MagLev held so much promise. I wanted so badly to see it become something I could use in production. The ability to persist arbitrary Ruby objects would’ve been a game changer.
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When Avi Bryant showed off his MagLev prototype, showing Ruby running on a Smalltalk VM, I thought I was seeing the future.
Sadly, he never intended to spend more than a summer on it, and nothing came of it. Huge letdown.
Agreed, MagLev held so much promise. I wanted so badly to see it become something I could use in production. The ability to persist arbitrary Ruby objects would’ve been a game changer.