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Re:Hypercard – Way Too Early by dahjelle on Friday February 21, 2014 @10:03AM (#7277245)
Has their been a successor to VB?

The web is close in some respects (HTML is easy) and not in others (servers and single-page apps are not).

I suppose, in another respect, Excel is a successor for many, though it isn't a good solution for making apps of any sort.

Surprisingly, the closest I've seen has been Microsoft's Project Siena[1]. I've not used it extensively, but my 5 or 10 minute made it look like it had the dirt-simple-to-get-started appeal of HyperCard and VB.

Anyone know of other "spiritual successors" out there?

[1] http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/en-us/app/microsoft-projec...

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Re:Hypercard – Way Too Early by freehunter on Friday February 21, 2014 @10:44AM (#7277448)
As a non-programmer, I've been looking for a VB successor for a long time.
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Re:Hypercard – Way Too Early by dahjelle on Friday February 21, 2014 @11:21AM (#7277646)
Not sure if either of these are useful to you, but there are some interesting projects in LiveCode[1] and in Alpha Anywhere[2]. I've not used either.

I'm hoping Mozilla's AppMaker[3] comes to something, but I haven't been able to actually make it work yet.

I can't say that I find any of these really (yet) hitting the sweet spot that HyperCard did, but that may be my own ignorance. :-D

[1] http://livecode.com/

[2] http://alphasoftware.com/

[3] https://appmaker.mozillalabs.com/

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Re:Hypercard – Way Too Early by fnordfnordfnord on Friday February 21, 2014 @11:45AM (#7277781)
I wouldn't call it a VB replacement but have a look at processing.org
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