There is an important age-old piece of advice though: "never ask a man his salary, a woman her age, or Ivan when he's going to publicly release hest."
I love the ideas these folks explore. I also want to explore - but I don’t have the time budget to learn and implement their concepts. I can’t speak for other software engineers, but I am much more likely to improve on such work if I can experience it first.
And Ivan's is here. https://github.com/ivanreese
But "public release of hest" was a joking reference to the fact that he's stated quite clearly that the project is just a testbed for him and will never be released. (No matter that every once in a while it makes the rounds of sites like this and everyone goes a-twitter...)
Our GitHub has a boatload of experiments: https://github.com/orgs/inkandswitch/repositories
This is a fun afternoon just waiting for you: http://feelingisreality.com
Muse started as a research project and turned into an app: https://museapp.com/
Some of our essays have embedded versions of our prototypes you can play with:
* Crosscut: https://www.inkandswitch.com/crosscut/
* Potluck: https://www.inkandswitch.com/potluck/
Alex Warth is currently working on a remake of Ivan Sutherland's Sketchpad: https://github.com/alexwarth/sutherland
There's probably a bunch more I'm forgetting.