Great article I agree with everything you say. A few items I would add to your Wishlist. Different graphical viewpoints, a Logical not strictly WYSIWYG, to see

Great article I agree with everything you say. A few items I would add to your Wishlist. Different graphical viewpoints, a Logical not strictly WYSIWYG, to see relations between components, easy to use calculations and functions. Excel like grid layout with constraints and auto layout for different screens, but better than Excel at dealing with text and graphics and blocks larger than cells ie mix Excel Word Powerpoint Photoshop ,constraint solver into a single app. Seamless PostgreSQL db interface, eg right click a cell or node and link to a PostgreSQL input or query function. I don’t understand why languages are so orientated to primitive files when we have amazing and much more useful databases and as you allude to they have virtually zero GUI capability, even Apple‘s supposedly new language Swift just rehashes the same primitive abstractions, that basically just provide temp data containers, little functions and simple control of flow. With Little regard for more advanced abstractions such as relational database, let alone a GUI.