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What, if any, is the most faithful HyperCard workalike in 2020?


What, if any, is the most faithful HyperCard workalike in 2020?


  👤 lioeters Accepted Answer ✓
People mention LiveCode as a modern successor: https://livecode.com/docs/9-5-0/introduction/welcome/

Myself, I use Mini vMac to run the original HyperCard. It's endlessly fascinating, though not for practical use. https://www.gryphel.com/c/minivmac

Really, the web and "hypertext" is/was supposed to be the evolution of HyperCard. I occasionally get a flash of joy, a remembrance of that dream, when working on React apps with hot reload - where I'm no longer writing code, but shaping a living material.

I still believe the potential is there for a new HyperCard, some kind of participatory, visually programmable social media (in an authentic sense of the term).