All of those guys had funding trouble. Even HARC didn't last more than a couple of years, I think because the funders pulled out.
That Nile/Gezira has languished is especially tough, but I think that's partially because Amelang had some personal troubles [1]. Note that at the bottom of that Github issue there is a link to a recent talk by Amelang in which, eventually, he talks about a new language he is working on called Bert or something. I'm thinking it's a next-gen follow up to Nile.
Yeah, I’m not surprised (tell me about funding…); even so, seeing it in black&white is still a gut-punch.
I mean, any one of FAANG alone could easily run a PARC or VPRI just off loose change in their kitchen kitty. And sure, it’s totally speculative blue-sky R&D that might [probably] never pan out; yet if no-one ever splurged on such gambles now and again we’d all be here having this argument by parchment and quill pen instead!
We learn by trying and failing, not by being afraid even to try. And in learning we succeed.
That Nile/Gezira has languished is especially tough, but I think that's partially because Amelang had some personal troubles [1]. Note that at the bottom of that Github issue there is a link to a recent talk by Amelang in which, eventually, he talks about a new language he is working on called Bert or something. I'm thinking it's a next-gen follow up to Nile.
[1] https://github.com/damelang/nile/issues/3