The cycle seems: Invent a new static information format (XML/JSON/HTML/...), reduce verbosity, add GUI, variables, comments, expressions, control flow, validati

The cycle seems: Invent a new static information format (XML/JSON/HTML/...), reduce verbosity, add GUI, variables, comments, expressions, control flow, validation, transformation, static typing, compilers, IDE support, dependency management, and maybe a non-backwards-compatible major version etc. And you end up with yet another Java/C# clone, just inferior because it was never meant to support all these things.