The simulation to be held in November is part of the concept of the operation initiated in August this year in Rio de Janeiro, with the aim of integrating UAM into Brazilian airspace. In this regard, in November the company will hold the “Sustainability in Action” presentation in which the concepts of four new regional aircraft for a sustainable future will be announced worldwide.
Rio de Janeiro is one of the worst-trafficked cities in the world, and the simulation will help us probe the real needs of users, partners, and the community that will benefit from our mobility solutions”.Įmbraer has been actively working on the development of solutions to promote Urban Air Mobility focused on reducing environmental impact. That’s humanity for you in all it’s complex, nuanced, inefficient glory.According to André Stein, Eve’s CEO, “Eve’s human-centered development approach pursues practical validation of concepts and assumptions that will help us understand and address key challenges associated with service delivery. And yet this project, which was doomed from the start, got all that cash. There are plenty of good projects that fail due to lack of funds. It think the most depressing thing about reading that transcript was the wasted time and money. It was highly predictable, nay inevitable that they would spend all that money with the end result of 34 incomplete versions and no deliverable in sight.
It was even worse with Eve: these guys were handed a wodge of cash and told to go with it. With no project manager cracking the whip or any deadlines, they both spent close to two years working on it and produced nothing usable. The two best developers in the company were given the task of building version 2 of our internal mobile porting tools. You don’t need to worry about delivering a product, meeting customer expectations, or any other mundane requirements. You have an interesting, difficult problem to solve with no hard end goals or deadlines.
#PROJECT EVE LANGUAGE SOFTWARE#
Software research is what all developers want to do. Steve McConnell called this Research-oriented development in his classic Rapid Development book but I prefer the slightly more glib term :). Second problem: it became a science project. Until computers have evolved to something more complex, we’re stuck with the imperfect programming tools currently available. The simplistic, binary nature of a computer building block does not allow for any uncertainty.Īll the efforts to create a “human” language for computers have failed and I believe the dissonance between binary bits and ambiguous thought will always lead to failure. Meanwhile, computers were invented under 200 years ago and are composed of bits that each represent an on/off state. This is because humans are composed of extraordinarily complex building blocks that allow for such ambiguity and we’ve evolved to that level over millenia.
Human languages and the methods by which we all communicate are nuanced and ambiguous. In my eyes, there are two reasons for that.įirst problem: it’s really, really hard to do this and fundamentally crippled by the nature of modern computing. And, just like those other systems, it ultimately failed in it’s goals. This isn’t an original idea - it’s been attempted many different times. In it, he describes the journey of Eve, a programming language that was meant to democratise programming and make it easy for non-technical types to learn and develop their own systems. I came across this interesting transcript of a talk given by Chris Granger.
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