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> Why not embrace 32 bit color and high resolution? It's a deliberate design decision, which hearkens back to an era when computing was simple. I appreciate it
by imiric 3y ago
> Why not embrace 32 bit color and high resolution?
It's a deliberate design decision, which hearkens back to an era when computing was simple. I appreciate it.
> At that point just use MiniVMac.
Decker has many modern improvements though:
> It retains the simplicity and ease of learning that HyperCard provided, while adding many subtle and overt quality-of-life improvements, like deep undo history, support for scroll wheels and touchscreens, more modern keyboard navigation, and bulk editing operations.
I personally like that it can output standalone HTML documents, uses a VCS friendly format, and its language can be used from the CLI.
It seems like a great project, in the same vein as Lua, LÖVE, Carousel, PICO-8, etc. In an era of complex, bloated, slow, opaque, and often hostile software, these projects are a breath of fresh air.