> As I see it most of the more unique ideas could be implemented in form of some tooling on top of some existing languages.
I deeply hope that's true, because it'll save me a lot of work :)
Software doesn't seem to be getting better. In fact, it seems to be getting worse in many areas.
Personally, I don't think there's "one big thing" that harms the ecosystem. I think it's friction in 1000 different places due to systems that don't quite work together seamlessly.
Scrapscript is an attempt to vertically integrate all the lessons we've learned in software in the past 80 years.
As I see it most of the more unique ideas could be implemented in form of some tooling on top of some existing languages.
What do I overlook here?