[rpeden]

It's not like they didn't deliver at all, though. They raised funding for Light Table via Kickstarter, and they then delivered Light Table. I don't think that the $316k raised should require perpetual commitment from Chris Granger. He put in a ton of work, and released it. LT is available, and it's open source, so anyone who wants to contribute to it can do so. But based on the amount of activity it has seen, it appears that for the most part, people either aren't willing or aren't able to contribute.

As for Eve - the people who invested in it are professionals. They knew going in that programming languages and tools are tough to monetize. I think that the level of commitment shown and the releases of Eve that were delivered are reasonable considering the amount of money that was invested.

[zubairq]

Speaking as one of the investors in Eve myself (Zubair, the guy mentioned in the video), I agree with this comment. Of course I would have loved it if they had continued with Eve, but it is very hard to monetize programming tools, especially when the vision is as big as the one that the Eve team had, as so many different pieces of programming had to fall in place.

Anyway, they inspired so many others who are now working on reactive programming and they showed the market that there is interest in other models of computation, so I see their work as spawning 1000s of others interested in democratising programming.

And yes, I was a professional investor in the past, so we know the risks :)