@gooby: What's your point exactly? Do you wish the Arduino had been developed using Basic? Or Lisp? Or Smalltalk? Or Objective C? If so, that's interesting but hardly relevant to anyone.
Do you want to release your own development environment using (say) Objective C? Go ahead, I'm sure people will be interested. You will maybe have to rewrite a whole lot of libraries to do that. It might be a heck of a lot of work. But go ahead if you want to.
Or have you just come here to complain?