Quote Originally Posted by Elysia View Post
Because it's an entirely new language, not compiled and not statically typed? (As far as I am aware, anyway.)
AFAIK, it is possible to combine the two: QML and C++.
"Not compiled" and "not statically typed" pretty much mean the same thing. Though, if QML is weakly typed, it will work like JavaScript, that way.

Newness doesn't matter if you're in Nokia's position because they could push QtQuick on you.