Yeah it could use help. Scratch is really just a heavily modified version of Disney's flavor of Smalltalk. I think it was called Squeek.
To continue the conversation it's important to remember the environment that Hypercard was born in: there was no Python, Ruby, or Javascript. The major alternatives were just C or C++ (right?). That is no longer the case. Consequently I'm not really sure it needs to be reborn.
Speaking of Javascript: