This is not a helpful comment.
Regardless of how entitled to cynicism you feel, try to keep your feedback pragmatically optimistic. I remember when the founders of Heroku told me that they were going to build a web enabled Ruby on Rails editor, I thought that was pretty dumb, too.
OK, this is a joke. Interesting how this one can go to the top of HN that fast... We're really hungry for a new engine, huh.