Smalltalk in General and Scratch in particular take several steps in the same direction. There are clear advantages to not having to deal with the impedance mis

Smalltalk in General and Scratch in particular take several steps in the same direction. There are clear advantages to not having to deal with the impedance mismatch, same as for dropping SQL and using database primitives. Depending on implementation choices (serialization format etc) you're trading more or less interoperability to get there.