I'm really excited to see what comes out of this, because I have no doubt that it's possible to come up with both better programming models and better environme

I'm really excited to see what comes out of this, because I have no doubt that it's possible to come up with both better programming models and better environments to support them. That said: a) More "traditional" languages aren't going anywhere, at least for the next few decades, however successful Eve is. b) The idea of really connecting to the running program has a huge amount of potential, even in these languages. Less potential than Eve? Perhaps, but I don't believe for a second that we've hit that wall yet (and I wholly intend on proving that with continued work on the Julia plugin). Leaving Light Table unfinished would be a travesty, even if it is only an incremental improvement – but it sounds like you'll at least treat it as an important side project, which is something. Best of luck with Eve, anyway.