> Really, the web and "hypertext" is/was supposed to be the evolution of HyperCard. I occasionally get a flash of joy, a remembrance of that dream, when working

> Really, the web and "hypertext" is/was supposed to be the evolution of HyperCard. I occasionally get a flash of joy, a remembrance of that dream, when working on React apps with hot reload - where I'm no longer writing code, but shaping a living material. With you all the way on the instant feedback thing. (This is what the smalltalk people demonstrated in the 70s and 80s.) The web is not -- in a turtles-all-the-way-down sense -- wysiwyg like HyperCard or some application of that nature, which is what I was looking for. I expect someone has made something in Squeak or Pharo which has the qualities of HyperCard. >I still believe the potential is there for a new HyperCard, some kind of participatory, visually programmable social media (in an authentic sense of the term). agree.