I guess it's the other way around as in "does the world really need to learn a programming language for making plain old web pages"? Tbh I don't know if hypersc

I guess it's the other way around as in "does the world really need to learn a programming language for making plain old web pages"? Tbh I don't know if hyperscript is the answer though, adding yet another language construct (with hard-coded, opinionated semantics) into the mix when we have already HTML/SGML, CSS, and lots of microsyntax. I guess the ship has sailed when JavaScript entered the scene at which point HTML has basically stalled, but the basic vision - that regular users or at least prosumers should be able to make generic content documents without resorting to a Turing-complete language - is as old as markup languages and SGML itself. SGML with HyTime in particular is able to deliver generic or project-specific behaviors of the kind demo'd on the hyperscript page (plus much more) through extension vocabularies and HTML templating without introducing new ad-hoc syntax at all.