Hypercard was a very general purpose app, but it was a bit of a "jack of all trades, master of none". I loved Hypercard, but it was never really an actual good

Hypercard was a very general purpose app, but it was a bit of a "jack of all trades, master of none". I loved Hypercard, but it was never really an actual good solution for any of the things you may want to do with it. 1) Lots of people tried to use it for making games, but anyone who tried quickly ran into its limitations. There were a handful of neat Hypercard games, but when I tried to see how they were made, I saw that they made heavy use of XCMDs and XFCNs -- custom extensions you had to write in a compiled language (Pascal? C?). At that point, why would you bother with Hypercard at all? 2) Another common use case were simple databases, like an address book, or a stack for all your music cassettes, or something like that. But it lacked search tools and a way to work with bulk data, so it wasn't really a good solution for databases. Filemaker was much better for databases. 3) Or you could use it for simple specialized calculators, like a currency converter. But it was a lot of work to set it all up correctly, and Excel was actually a lot more useful for these kinds of tasks.