[bendmorris]

>Are people not skilled enough to propose or send commits to an existing or alternative programming language?

I'll just comment on this part. I'm a contributor to Haxe (not so mainstream perhaps but more so than Kit.) Kit was a chance to try out some features that don't fit in well to Haxe (and in fact I did propose several of these features as additions to Haxe, and they were explicitly rejected.) Sometimes the answer really is to write a new language, because language simplicity is still important and one language can't be everything to everyone.

And of course, Haxe wouldn't exist if its creator hadn't been unsatisfied with existing languages at the time...