Much of Spritely's tech is extrapolated from the designs pioneered in the E Programming Language http://erights.org/
But E comes from Electric Communities Habitat... a p2p distributed virtual world system which could run untrusted code and had user-run economies... in 1997! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNiePoNiyvE
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In response to this postSpritely's tech is a big lift. Goblins is a distributed programming environment! It's not a trivial thing to design.
For this reason, the first serious program testing and using Goblins' tech was Terminal Phase, a space shooter that runs in a developer terminal!
It was a robust test on its own!
Terminal Phase has also been a great testbed and demo for all our tech. For example, Goblins supports transactionality and time-travel features. But that's hard to understand!
But here's a video of time travel in Terminal Phase! *No* gameplay code changes were made to enable time travel! The game was fully programmed, and then in retrospect @cwebber realized that time travel support was already there, and so simply spent an hour wiring up what was already there to the GUI so users could see.
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