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Hypercard. The difference, of course, is that Excel wasn't abandoned by its owners like Hypercard was.

by RodgerTheGreat 4y ago

eddieroger 4y ago
Dammit I miss HyperCard. HyperCard got me in to programming by making it accessible to someone who didn't even realize they were doing it - my Hebrew teacher in third grade. There haven't been many tools that can make anything from a simple card file to Myst. I wish there was something like that today, or that I was a good enough engineer to contribute to a modern replacement.
- simonh 4y ago
  There are quite a few options, including emulators, clones and HC inspired projects. https://hypercard.org/ https://hypercard.org/
karencarits 4y ago
It's not a replacement per se, but tiddlywiki is the closest I have seen of a very flexible yet easy-to-use framework for people who have limited programming skills https://tiddlywiki.com/ https://tiddlywiki.com/ There is a long list of tools built in tiddlywiki: https://dynalist.io/d/zUP-nIWu2FFoXH-oM7L7d9DM https://dynalist.io/d/zUP-nIWu2FFoXH-oM7L7d9DM
notaclevername 4y ago
Check out Power Apps. It is functionally Hypercard on top of any Office 365 data sources you want.
- RodgerTheGreat 4y ago
  I spent about half an hour poking around Microsoft's documentation for PowerApps and then their Youtube channel trying to find a concise demonstration of the tool, and it was all totally impenetrable. Everything was either too high-level- speaking aspirationally about the potential business value without really showing anything being made or used- or too low-level, off in the weeds tutorializing a very specific esoteric integration with a bunch of other tools, writing reams of backend code in some other language and environment. I feel confident in my evaluation that PowerApps is in a completely different universe of accessibility and complexity from Hypercard.

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Hypercard. The difference, of course, is that Excel wasn't abandoned by its owners like Hypercard was.

by RodgerTheGreat 4y ago

Hypercard. The difference, of course, is that Excel wasn't abandoned by its owners like Hypercard was.

eddieroger 4y ago
Dammit I miss HyperCard. HyperCard got me in to programming by making it accessible to someone who didn't even realize they were doing it - my Hebrew teacher in third grade. There haven't been many tools that can make anything from a simple card file to Myst. I wish there was something like that today, or that I was a good enough engineer to contribute to a modern replacement.
- simonh 4y ago
  There are quite a few options, including emulators, clones and HC inspired projects. https://hypercard.org/ https://hypercard.org/
karencarits 4y ago
It's not a replacement per se, but tiddlywiki is the closest I have seen of a very flexible yet easy-to-use framework for people who have limited programming skills https://tiddlywiki.com/ https://tiddlywiki.com/ There is a long list of tools built in tiddlywiki: https://dynalist.io/d/zUP-nIWu2FFoXH-oM7L7d9DM https://dynalist.io/d/zUP-nIWu2FFoXH-oM7L7d9DM
notaclevername 4y ago
Check out Power Apps. It is functionally Hypercard on top of any Office 365 data sources you want.
- RodgerTheGreat 4y ago
  I spent about half an hour poking around Microsoft's documentation for PowerApps and then their Youtube channel trying to find a concise demonstration of the tool, and it was all totally impenetrable. Everything was either too high-level- speaking aspirationally about the potential business value without really showing anything being made or used- or too low-level, off in the weeds tutorializing a very specific esoteric integration with a bunch of other tools, writing reams of backend code in some other language and environment. I feel confident in my evaluation that PowerApps is in a completely different universe of accessibility and complexity from Hypercard.