I like the look of this project, and it's in many ways inspiring, but here's my cynical take:
I think that Eve won't be conducive to creating applications beyond a few hundred lines of code -- after that, the "human-friendly" programming paradigm becomes an obstacle to production. Once people actually understand how the code works, the document style becomes superfluous.
I suspect that Eve will be a great learning tool and pique the interest of those who would otherwise never program, but Eve will be an introductory tool that users will inevitably graduate from to other languages that are perhaps more powerful, concise, and scale better.
A ton of programming is done in Access and Excel. Perhaps most business calculation and presentation formulas are done in those "integrated" environments, and not in languages as we "programmers" know them.
I can see this fitting a niche between Excel and "normal" programming. That niche might be a lot bigger than we think.
I think we may be a bit blinded as regular programmers to who is actually a programmer, and where programming happens.
I think that Eve won't be conducive to creating applications beyond a few hundred lines of code -- after that, the "human-friendly" programming paradigm becomes an obstacle to production. Once people actually understand how the code works, the document style becomes superfluous.
I suspect that Eve will be a great learning tool and pique the interest of those who would otherwise never program, but Eve will be an introductory tool that users will inevitably graduate from to other languages that are perhaps more powerful, concise, and scale better.