I haven't followed Maglev closely beyond some of the links posted here, so the following confused me: There were questions during the demo about ActiveRecord c

I haven't followed Maglev closely beyond some of the links posted here, so the following confused me: There were questions during the demo about ActiveRecord compatibility. To me, building in ActiveRecord compatibility is worse than a waste of time. [...] When you don’t NEED an RDBMS (more often than you think) or you need scalable Ruby servers, I think Maglev is going to be an enticing alternative. My understanding was that Maglev is an implementation of Ruby, while ActiveRecord is a feature of Rails... What am I missing? Is there any fundamental incompatibility between Maglev and Ruby that would prevent ActiveRecord from ever working? Why would it have to be "built in"? Edit: This link http://www.avibryant.com/2008/06/maglev-recap.html http://www.avibryant.com/2008/06/maglev-recap.html from the other discussion thread gave me more information. Still, if Maglev is Ruby (or Ruby+, maybe?) and ActiveRecord is written in Ruby, then bugs and minor incompatibilities aside, shouldn't ActiveRecord just work?