Thoughts on why this project was dumped by investors:
I think the problem they really had from the beginning was they were pressuring themselves to innovate in an industry that is already decades old. You can't raise $2 mil and not feel the pressure to perform, and sadly this is not how innovation works. So instead they kept releasing prototypes that didn't really make sense or remotely scale:
- turning sql into graphs that made a 2 line statement take up the whole screen
- the database language that had no performance characteristics at all
- the bouncing ball demo that seems to only be made to create a bouncing ball, and yet doesn't add more understanding to the process anyway
- the imperative language written in 'english' (but of course only accepts the english words and specific grammar the software understands) and so on.
Not trying to be harsh, but this is probably a good thing. Once they take a break and move on to other things, a ton of ideas will no doubt come flooding in, just because they aren't under the same scrutiny and pressure anymore.
As one of the investors I think it is strong language when you say "dumped", and not really true in my opinion.
You have to remember that there are still many people who want to back this as a project. One of the big issues is that it is a really hard problem technically to solve with many "unknown" "unknowns".
And yes, I agree that many ideas will flood in because of this, and Chris Granger and Rob Attori and co have already influenced many other people and projects, they are in my opinion the thought leaders in this new programming space, and as a consequence have already influenced the entire industry with their ideas.
In any case, they influenced me, and if they influenced just one person, that is enough for me :)
I had only just learned of Eve through this post, and watched a bunch of Chris' videos... I was blown away by him!
I've been in tech a long time and have known lots of extremely bright people. But, I've not met many who exhibit such a broad horizontal grasp of complex technical concepts combined with an elegant and concise way of expressing this knowledge (e.g. via Eve).
I think the problem they really had from the beginning was they were pressuring themselves to innovate in an industry that is already decades old. You can't raise $2 mil and not feel the pressure to perform, and sadly this is not how innovation works. So instead they kept releasing prototypes that didn't really make sense or remotely scale:
- turning sql into graphs that made a 2 line statement take up the whole screen
- the database language that had no performance characteristics at all
- the bouncing ball demo that seems to only be made to create a bouncing ball, and yet doesn't add more understanding to the process anyway
- the imperative language written in 'english' (but of course only accepts the english words and specific grammar the software understands) and so on.
Not trying to be harsh, but this is probably a good thing. Once they take a break and move on to other things, a ton of ideas will no doubt come flooding in, just because they aren't under the same scrutiny and pressure anymore.