[samaaron]

Sonic Pi does borrow (steal) a lot of ideas from Overtone. However, the goals are fundamentally different. Overtone aims to give you (the programmer) as much power as possible to create new instruments. Sonic Pi aims to be as simple as possible for everyone (including programmers) to use code to make music.

That said, we still aim to increase the power Sonic Pi offers. It's just that we'll not add any features that make it more complex than it already is without serious thought :-)