[HN Gopher] Show HN: A small Hypercard stack running as a PWA
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       Show HN: A small Hypercard stack running as a PWA
        
       In my early programming years, I went from BASIC to HyperCard, then
       learned C when I couldn't make HyperCard do everything I wanted.
       Plenty of folks have pointed out how the lack of native support for
       color doomed HyperCard. But I think it was really over when the web
       got started and replaced everything in the "personal content" space
       from underneath, so I decided to see if the idea of HyperCard would
       work as a web app. There are some missing pieces -- it's not
       perfectly compatible. You can, however, make stacks online and let
       others see them. Free, no ads, no personal information, you are not
       tracked, just a fun project.
        
       Author : hyperhello
       Score  : 21 points
       Date   : 2022-04-15 15:19 UTC (7 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (hypercardsimulator.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (hypercardsimulator.com)
        
       | watersb wrote:
       | Wow. Just last night, I had a dream where I had taken my family
       | along to a conference of AppleScript and HyperTalk developers.
       | 
       | Family enjoyed the hotel and the glorious metropolis of San Jose.
       | A dozen or so programmers thought about ways to take AppleScript
       | to the next level.
       | 
       |  _(We could call it... AppleJava for Apps!)_
        
       | HanClinto wrote:
       | Absolutely love Hypercard, and love what you did with this.
       | Nicely done!!
        
       | kwatsonafter wrote:
       | Great work. I love HyperCard. I'm too young to really have
       | properly played around with it but I think the idealism is
       | superb. There really needs to to be more popular software
       | inspired by acid trips.
        
       | recursivedoubts wrote:
       | absolutely awesome
       | 
       | i am an old hypercard programmer, and i have a passion project I
       | work on:
       | 
       | https://hyperscript.org
       | 
       | which is a scripting language for the web, based on HyperTalk
        
         | samhw wrote:
         | I just wanted to say: I'm super anal by nature and I was fully
         | expecting to have some criticism to make of your site or your
         | language, but this is one of the most high-quality, well-
         | thought-out projects I've seen. The sheer thoroughness of it is
         | extraordinary. I especially love that you've written a proper
         | reference for the language. Chapeau to you. This is better than
         | some Google research projects I've seen.
         | 
         | I'd be really interested in the underlying theory, or any
         | insights you had when writing this. I'm not quite old enough to
         | really be familiar with Hypercard, so I may be missing
         | something.
         | 
         | (I did spot a couple of minor typesetting mistakes, of course,
         | haha. You've got 'anymore' ['any more'] on the '/comparison'
         | page, and 'propogate' ['propagate'] in the reference.)
        
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