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Squeak and its offshoot Pharo have been trying this for years. In fact, MIT Scratch was originally based on Squeak.

[steelmanning]

Why was this downvoted?

Squeak and Pharo are both pretty obviously prior art for Eve. For example, the bouncing balls demo someone linked to elsewhere in this thread looks very similar to Squeak + EToys, albeit with a dark theme.

Squeak and Pharo could both use more developers, BTW:

http://www.squeak.org

http://www.pharo.org