> Eve is our way of bringing the power of computation to everyone, not by making everyone a programmer but by finding a better way for us to interact with computers. On the surface, Eve is an environment a little like Excel that allows you to "program" simply by moving columns and rows around in tables. Under the covers it's a powerful database, a temporal logic language, and a flexible IDE that allows you to build anything from a simple website to complex algorithms.
Thanks for taking a read. Chris stated in the blog post that this release is basically "a database with an IDE". Our vision for Eve is that people will use it as a tool for thinking and then communicating the results of that thought process.
Take a look at Excel, for instance. Excel is the most widely used programming language by non-programmers simply because of its dead-simple programming abstraction: a grid of cells than can hold data and reference each other with formulae. History has shown anybody can get this.
People have taken this surprisingly far, but there are still drastic limitations to what you can build this way (how do you manage state, UI, external access to APIs and data?). Trying to make programming in its current form simpler is a dead-end; as a task, programming has built up too much incidental complexity over the years. Instead, we are approaching it from the Excel angle of trying a completely different abstraction, which (we hope) will attract the same kind of attention from non-programmers as Excel has.
