The language that newbies love is never going to be the language that experts love. Andy Hunt writes about this somewhat in his book Pragmatic Thinking and Lear

The language that newbies love is never going to be the language that experts love. Andy Hunt writes about this somewhat in his book Pragmatic Thinking and Learning - newbies need a level of structure and support that experts would feel to be braces restricting their movement. Whatever eventually replaces PHP will have to be easy for beginners to get going with. I assume it will not be a compiled language. I think that rules out most of the languages on the JVM, even the really easy ones, because it is on the JVM, and dealing with compiling is one more hoop that beginners won't necessarily want to jump through. CLASSPATH is not friendly. Likewise, I'd rule out .NET languages. New languages tend to gain a foothold when people change contexts, so I assume cell phones offer a starting point. A light weight script language that works on cell phones? I am not sure what that will be.