There's still code here, the text is just for people, so I wonder if this is maybe a misunderstanding.
The language presented is a variant of datalog and is as formal as any other language. If you're curious in the semantics, they boil down to Dedalus [1].
I think the intent is clear for people with preexisting familiarity with the same ideas. A clojure dev with some datomic. I read declarative, set oriented, database of facts, pattern matching and thought 'the revenge of prolog then'.
This is really nice work. I mean this in the best possible way: I think I could teach my children to use this.
Actually Chris Granger was heavily involved with Clojure. David Nolen gives a great shoutout to Chris Granger and Eve's predecesor, Light Table at minute 17:00 a couple of weeks ago at the Clojure TRE conference:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2Aa4PivG0g
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Edit: Actually Chris Granger gave an Eve talk at the same conference. It's interesting to see how Eve has evolved since.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5V1ynVyud4M