That engine popped into my head again today and I'm pretty sure that we're still no closer to finding out what actually happened.
Most likely some beef with Autodesk.
Also I'm not sure whay JB is expecting in 5 years when he releases a paid version and all the languages that were inspired by it are more commonplace.
No open source--no attention.
Otherwise, you get stuff like the "Our Machinery" fiasco: https://www.reddit.com/r/gameenginedevs/comments/wd3o33/deve...