SuperCard? https://www.supercard.us/
Ask HN: Modern day equivalent to HyperCard?
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#52Blueprints inside the Unreal game engine would provide complexity and motivation. But it’s not for 2d cards but behaviours of agents in a 3d world.
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#53Try hyperscript. It’s like HyperTalk for the web. Pairs w htmx.
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#541. Decker is the closest modern equivalent https://beyondloom.com/decker/ 2. Bubble is easy for non-coders. https://bubble.io/ 3. Gambas BASIC is a bit more technical, but will give you hard 90's vibes (Linux only) https://gambas.sourceforge.net/en/main.html I think the advent of LLMs might make these types of tools more accessible to non-coders, or at least I hope so.
Bubble doesn’t seem too much to do with HyperCard and as coder I find it almost unusable. I understand it but it’s so finicky…
I would say a modern HyperCard is LiveCode (outside Decker).
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#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
I do elementary school Robotics, we program the robot in a version of scratch / blockly. There is a huge amount what you can do. The programming club does some pretty cool game things.
Are there any good starter kits that you'd recommend on the hardware side that work well with the software stack you all use?
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#56Scratch is far better and deeper than most people think. It's also interesting because the developer interface forces thinking for yourself on things like how to manage complexity in your project, or how to get different modules to communicate - and that's useful (if only helpers thought to point that out). It's very unlikely the school is digging deep in Scratch. Most likely they are keeping to the very basics - and…
> Scratch is far better and deeper than most people think.
Scratch has no local variables, no recursion, no pointers or references, and no data structures, correct?
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#57Given so many HyperCard-like product exists - why is it that none have taken off and become common like HyperCard once was? What is missing or has changed?
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#58Haven’t seen downpour mentioned, it’s pretty neat https://downpour.games/
Seconded! It’s mobile-first, very friendly, and very much designed for beginners. Lots of fun toys and games out there!
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#59Given so many HyperCard-like product exists - why is it that none have taken off and become common like HyperCard once was? What is missing or has changed?
The World Wide Web.
HyperCard is an early hypermedia system predating the web.
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#60Scratch is far better and deeper than most people think. It's also interesting because the developer interface forces thinking for yourself on things like how to manage complexity in your project, or how to get different modules to communicate - and that's useful (if only helpers thought to point that out). It's very unlikely the school is digging deep in Scratch. Most likely they are keeping to the very basics - and…
> Scratch is far better and deeper than most people think. Scratch has no local variables, no recursion, no pointers or references, and no data structures, correct?
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