His destiny is to start the same thing from scratch again and again...

Mine too. But every time I start again it's easier and better, and someday I believe my work will "click".

I think the same is true of Chris.

Thanks! Shame it did not work out, it was an interesting (and inspirational) endeavour.

I just watched a recording of a talk Chris gave a few months ago. It's a retrospective about building Lighttable/Aurora/Eve. If you were interested in the project(s) I suspect you'll find it interesting.

Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WT2CMS0MxJ0

Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThjFFDwOXok

Thanks, will definitely watch! LightTable and its instarepl definitely inspired me but as time went I somehow lost track of the project. Inspired by LightTable I even created an instarepl for java and clojure workflows in my pet project (titanoboa.io). So definitely will watch his talks as I might even face similar struggles (albeit in slightly different area/industry).

I think the Light Table guys inspired many people to work on this stuff. As an investor of LightTable/Eve mentioned in the video I was pretty inspired by these guys too. I am now working on my own Cloud editor, at yazz.com