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A lot of good news, thank you!

It would be interesting to hear how much of EVE code has it taken to implement compiler or editor. And is there any interesting bottlenecks you would need to optimize out before release?

And how was the experience of writing a lot of EVE code? Do you feel yourself a lot more productive? Have you become accustomed to a new way of writing software very fast and does it feel natural to you now?

Regarding models of time. I'm a bit familiar with Dedalus and I've skimmed over Edelweiss. I'm interested in how would you use Edelweiss in non-distributed settings (I assume Eve is not targeted at that kind of applications right now). Would you try to use it to maintain transactional visibility during re-flows of data across views and afterwards discarding dead data?

I remember you're mentioning datomic in a podcast, so I think you'd want to keep dead data at least for some time, to have an ability to run time-travel queries later. Is this correct?

Would it be possible for developers to control when facts should be garbage collected? For example, CORFU log (which is a good implementation of event log abstraction with flexible views above it) allows clients to control trimming http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.ru/2014/09/paper-summary-tango-... (also I've had a good experience implementing underneath a similar interface for a queue system, it lead to a similar range compression optimization as in Edelweiss).

All the details you've already mentioned make me dream at night wishing a sooner release of Eve to experiment with it. I hope your next answers won't make me kidnap you and beg for an earlier access :)

What domain-specific editors are you planning to include in public release? Something for UI construction on the web?

Is it planned that users of Eve will routinely construct new or modify existing domain-specific editors to the task at hand?

Since first focus of Eve is on web apps (and it's hosted on javascript, correct?), will it cover both client and server applications?

Will there be an FFI?

If I remember correctly, you're planning to use datalog+time+constraints and plan to use materialized views extensively, is it so? Will ability to work with changes as a stream and aggregate over them in more interesting ways than "the last always wins" be builtin in Eve?

Have you tried to show a prototype to children and how do they respond in learning such system if so? What was the reaction of academic friends who were not too familiar with standard forms of programming (like you did with the first prototype of Aurora)?

If I'll ask more questions will it be all right and not too much trouble? :)