Let's turn towards the future

Yes, SmartEiffel is dead.

SmartEiffel has brought great things such as the first working implementation of non-conforming inheritance as well as well defined (should I say, just defined) conformance rules for agents.

SmartEiffel lost its steam, in my opinion, because:

1. The code base is too complex. There is no way to understand it if you are not helped by the core team.
2. The core team does not welcome any patch from the outside. It discouraged people to participate and since the users of a compiler are also technical people, users were lost.
3. Everybody knew that the core team had a private list where every decision was taken. Not free.
4. Some members of the core team had ideas that were not approved by the big boss. Too many no-no and core members got weary.
   
5. The head of the core team seems to have mysteriously disappeared. The team lost all motivation.

Here comes Liberty: SmartEiffel down from its ivory tower.

I want Liberty to be:

1. A striking example of good Eiffel code. That certainly means powerful, but above all simple and understandable.
2. Released with batteries (and with simple technical means to add more batteries!)
   
3. Interoperable with most mainstream languages (C, Java, .NET...)
4. Available on most platforms.
5. Really free, as in free speech.