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We need a modern HyperCard, I want to see more creative computing


there's a great blogpost explaining the creator's inspirations in hypercard also: https://beyondloom.com/blog/sketchpad.html

I'm working on it, Breadboard[0] is a visual app builder that mixes Figma-style UI design with Shortcuts-style logic.

[0] https://breadboards.io/


I recently enjoyed this episode of Mac Folklore Radio.

A surprising prescient discussion on HyperCard and hypertext.

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/mac-folklore-radio/id1...


There is this thing called the World Wide Web that does most of that.

The web is sort of like hypercard, but it's not the same; in particular, the ease of creating things in hypercard is the important thing about it, and AFAIK that remains unmatched.

Exactly - the Web is a PDF. Hypercard is a Word document.

As someone who knows rather a lot about HyperCard: it was never allowed or positioned to fulfill its potential. There were easily fixable security issues ruining the opportunity to be the center of OS scripting. The UI was never rewritten for color and to match the Mac UI, which would not have been complicated either. The code must have been very difficult to upgrade, either technically or organizationally, because the entire upgrade run past 2.0 was so meager. It was a piece of genius, but in the end, only a piece.

LiveCode is its spiritual successor IMHO. Cross platform too. https://livecode.com/

Doesn’t really seem to get “it” to be a successor, or even a new VisualBasic.

A long term goal of mine, but I would create a desktop application as I don’t think there’s enough focus on those any more.

I would love a local-first app, publish to web sure! but local first editor would be fantastic imo

in progress ;)

Talk to me like a real person please


It actively ruins multimedia software I use in live performances- so no I don’t just need to upgrade

No No No No No No


This 100% - it’s funny how it’s actually more reliable in my experience to use the encrypted sparse bundle. I can sling it over to my NAS no problem. I’ve restored from one and everything was perfectly fine. YMMV of course


That was my experience at first, but then it gets corrupted somehow and you have to delete it and start over. Happened to me multiple times with RAID 1, so pretty sure it's a software error -- I eventually just gave up.


Same here, lost my backup 3 times across some 6 years. Gave up and moved on to Kopia.


Have you run memtest on the machine in question? That kind of problem sounds like a classic bad RAM symptom.


Be warned if you actually install beta software and take your device to the Apple Store they will not replace parts because of the chance the diagnostic tools aren’t compatible- this bit me trying to get my iPhone battery replaced


+1 I went out of my way to set up a skeleton project that just uses shell scripts to build an app bundle. I really dislike Xcode but Swift itself is actually fun to write.


don't know personally but I'm told bazel shines here.



Thank you. It’s driving me crazy that everyone is just pointing to research and numbers, partly manufactured numbers at that. Go outside and talk to a few real people and see how they’re fairing maybe…


Only because humans before Claude wrote many NES emulators…


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