In retrospect, their harsh words about our current languages and tools representing a 1970s mindset come across as hubris.
In retrospect, their harsh words about our current languages and tools representing a 1970s mindset come across as hubris.
Nah, I think the hubris is thinking you could make a business with a near-horizon payoff fixing the problem they accurately identified.
I can't think of any “build a new language” startups that have succeeded (I'm sure there's one out there somewhere, though.) Getting a language established is a long slog, unless you've got a mega-user as a partner from day one, which mostly happens when the project is developed internally by that mega-user.
it may not be possible any more, though.
We never did get to see the vision that was presented in that KS...
[1] 2012 was two years before Brackets/Atom and three before VSCode.
When we produced this video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWAMr72VaaU) for the v0.2 release, we actually went though the LT kickstarter video and tried to deliver on the promises made there. I think at one point in the office we had them going side by side, showing the promise in LT and the reality in Eve.
(Hopefully the community will keep it alive, I enjoyed playing around with it and I think the programming model might be onto something)