I remember Matz and Dave Thomas talking at 1st OSCON in portland, then promptly forgot about it. Today certain rails plugins are critical: acts as solr/ferret/xapian, thinking sphinx, sunspot, but when i get an i7 box i'm gonna feel kinda silly
searching for my own (simplified) subset/ dialect, like in the Pragmatic book, and waiting to see how Actors libs shake out. Need to update self on 2.8 collections,Intellij plugin