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Author here. I certainly understand that seeing progressively more sophisticated practical applications will help people "get" Eve. I look forward to that myself.

In the meantime, I hope I can show a "plausibility argument" for Eve's potential by pointing to areas where the status quo of mainstream programming is visibly less than ideal. Uniformity of data formats and operations across the programming stack is one such area.



This article got me curious about eve. Now i think you need to find your "killer use case".

Ror had none, because it was doing what everything else was doing, just faster. But a successful business used it so people got interested.

Node.js first demonstrated chat server

Angular.js showed two way binding of dom to data using declarative syntax

React had those crazy dom update benchmark.

Golang showed various pattern for synchronizing using channels. The "hello world" of go was a chat server.

Etc.. now all those tech had many other great feature. But you need to find one single killer concrete example for the tech, that it performs an order of magnitude better / simpler / faster / safer than any other.

Also, never ever forget runtime speed benchmark. You don't need to be the best, just not catastrophicaly bad.




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