A Visual History of Eve: 2014 - 2018

In early 2014, Chris Granger et al raised 2.3M in a round led by Andreessen Horowitz with the mission of democratizing programming.

They spent their first two years building 30+ prototypes of graphical programming tools. Most of their prototypes enabled users to build interactive visual applications, such as TodoMVC or FourSquare.

Two years in, they released Eve v0.2 as the first prototype available to the public. It was a browser-based literate programming environment. Despite all of the graphical programming prototypes, Eve v0.2 was a text-based language. It was inspired by Dedalus (from the BOOM Lab), which in turn is based on Datalog, a subset of Prolog.

They continued iterating on Eve v0.2, and blogged about v0.3 and v0.4, but never released hosted versions of either. Eve shut down in early 2018 after failing to find an acquirer.

Thanks to the Eve team: Chris Granger, Corey Montella, Josh Cole, Rob Attorri, Eric Hoffman, and Jamie Brandon. You were an inspiration.

TableEve Discussed in this retrospective ("February 2014" section).

WhenDo Madlibs Discussed in this retrospective ("April 2014" section).

Excel Eve Discussed in this retrospective ("September 2014" section).

Direct Manipulation & Tables Demoed at StrangeLoop 2015

Grid Eve Discussed in October-November 2015

REPLv1 Discussed in March 2016

REPLv2 Discussed in April 2016

Eve v0.3 release Discussed in March 2017 and various notes . This version was eventually skipped in favor of v0.4. Photo not available