The Hypercard > SuperCard > Macromedia Director > Flash > Air (side shout out to proce55ing) method of letting kids make art and learn code seems like it's beco

The Hypercard > SuperCard > Macromedia Director > Flash > Air (side shout out to proce55ing) method of letting kids make art and learn code seems like it's become a dead branch on the evolutionary tree whose trunk is now web standards and (bewilderingly) javascript. It's gotten fragmented to the point where to do these kinds of things you need to get a ton of separate packages and knowledge of code. It's amazing that a 9 year old could do this back in 1989 or so. What's really needed is a VM or just a compiler to web standards that gives this kind of open-ended creativity and focuses on the user experience for a broad spectrum from kids to creative professionals. And one that's open source, finally, and not locked to a hardware platform or a creative cloud subscription.