One cool thing that Swift playgrounds let you do is advance program state through loops and other flow-control line-by-line using a slider. I think they have to have cooperation with the compiler/runtime to make this happen. (I'm also not sure how truly useful it is after a few days of learning the basics.)
I suppose you could do something similar with the native inputs but not using native syntax. What I'm thinking would be a massive undertaking I realize - it's cool that this offering generates so many "ooh and what else" ideas.