I remember both LightTable and Eve. At the time I thought they were both really interesting ideas but wasn't sure where they were going.

Re-reading the eve website now, with 10+ years more experience and understanding of languages I'm really astounded at how brilliant Eve was, and how far ahead of it's time it was (and still is). Also at how rare it is to have any revolutionary ideas in modern programming language design make it out of theory in contemporary times. There were many radical ideas in the 60 and 70s, but so much now is incremental.

It's a shame Eve couldn't continue, just to see what it would've become and the influence it would have had on language expectations. Really cool stuff in there. While not likely, I hope someone picks up those ideas and continues them.

Did the effort just run out of funding? Or did it hit a stumbling block?