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Any idea what happened to Chris Granger and the original LightTable/Eve plans? If I am not mistaken they took some VC money right? How did that work out? Would be really interested to hear their story and lessons learned.

Aside from that I was a big LightTable fan and really enjoyed its inline instarepl and other features, so it is definitely great to see that LT is not completely forgotten! Kudos!

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> Any idea what happened to Chris Granger and the original LightTable/Eve plans?

The project is dead [1][2] as of Jan 24, 2018.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16227130

[2] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/eve-talk/YFguOGkNrBo/E...

Thanks! Shame it did not work out, it was an interesting (and inspirational) endeavour.

I just watched a recording of a talk Chris gave a few months ago. It's a retrospective about building Lighttable/Aurora/Eve. If you were interested in the project(s) I suspect you'll find it interesting.

Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WT2CMS0MxJ0

Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThjFFDwOXok

Thanks, will definitely watch! LightTable and its instarepl definitely inspired me but as time went I somehow lost track of the project. Inspired by LightTable I even created an instarepl for java and clojure workflows in my pet project (titanoboa.io). So definitely will watch his talks as I might even face similar struggles (albeit in slightly different area/industry).

I think the Light Table guys inspired many people to work on this stuff. As an investor of LightTable/Eve mentioned in the video I was pretty inspired by these guys too. I am now working on my own Cloud editor, at yazz.com

His destiny is to start the same thing from scratch again and again...

Mine too. But every time I start again it's easier and better, and someday I believe my work will "click".

I think the same is true of Chris.

Hi, author of the post here, LightTable is cool, right? Yeah, I'm trying to get the inline code evaluation and instarepl features working on new updates.

Thanks for doing God's work! How hard would it be to get LT running inside a browser? Also, does it have a headless mode and how hard would that be?

I'm glad you asked it. It's in my future plan. It shouldn't be much hard. I would like to pursue it after of course getting LT stable(and maybe with some funding).

They took Kickstarter money too.

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