Yeah, it's been a while since this effort has come up on my radar. Now that I'm remembering a little more, these are the same guys who were behind light-table, I think. So I guess it's fair to say that they've thought deeply about the problem. I still think that the path they are exploring will not bear fruit as in my opinion they seem to have a core, almost axiomatic disbelief in the inherent difficulty of software development and a corresponding disdain for the patterns of work that have led to what is actually productive today. I think that software development is fundamentally, irreducibly hard. Poor tooling can certainly makes it more inaccessible and good tooling can certainly make it more accessible, but the real difficultly is conceptual and not due to the nature to any particular language or tooling. Therefore tooling and language alone cannot make it fundamentally easier.

I'm glad someone is exploring it. Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe this will yield promising results. But so far it seems like every time this kind of work come around again it continues to make big promises without concrete benefit. At best it provides a more gentle introduction for beginners, which is a good thing. But I have yet to see anything that would provide to me as a professional even half the utility and "accessibility" of my current toolset. Typically many of the simplifications they make in the name of accessibility become more of a hindrance than a help as you advance past the beginning stages.