steelmanning

Why was this downvoted?

Squeak and Pharo are both pretty obviously prior art for Eve. For example, the bouncing balls demo someone linked to elsewhere in this thread looks very similar to Squeak + EToys, albeit with a dark theme.

Squeak and Pharo could both use more developers, BTW:

http://www.squeak.org

http://www.pharo.org

Squeak and its offshoot Pharo have been trying this for years. In fact, MIT Scratch was originally based on Squeak.

When you have a failed Kickstarter under your belt, that's a good indication you need to aim lower.

> You are being a bit harsh

I know, and I rewrote my post several times before submitting it, trying to minimize the harshness. But the pattern with Granger is pretty obvious, isn't it? Grandiose ambitions, over-commitment, and a resulting failure to ship.

This is the same man, Chris Granger, that did a Kickstarter for Light Table, a so-called "next generation IDE," with promotional materials touting as new and revolutionary features that had been standard in IntelliJ, Visual Studio, and even Eclipse for years:

http://chrononsystems.com/blog/light-table-concept-vs-realit...

Light Table was also ultimately abandoned before completion.

Perhaps Granger should rein in his ambitions somewhat, or at least try to delegate more (assuming there are enough people to whom he can delegate)?