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• Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps

  Decker absolutely enables malleable software: https://beyondloom.com/decker/ You can tell when a platform is succeeding at this by looking at its adoption among non-programmers. - Source: Hacker News / 8 days ago

• Bill Atkinson has passed away

  Thanks, Bill. Rest in Peace. I was amazed by Bill's software seeing it on a Mac back then - MacPaint mostly, then HyperCard. I was not even 10, but I was already programming, and spent hours trying to figure out how to implement MacPaint's Lasso on my humble ZX Spectrum. (With some success, but not quite as elegant...) If you want to experience HyperCard, John Earnest (RodgerTheGreat on HN[0]) built Decker[1] that... - Source: Hacker News / 11 days ago

• Tcl the Misunderstood (Antirez)

  Decker is FOSS, and available in both a web version and native builds for MacOS, BSD, Linux, and Windows: http://beyondloom.com/decker/ If you've seen Decker previously you might find it useful to know that it has recently acquired several "escape hatches" for interoperating with software and APIs outside its usual sandbox: http://beyondloom.com/decker/decker.html#thedangerzone. - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago

• Ask HN: Platform for 11 year old to create video games?

  Decker is fairly "powerpoint-like" in the sense that it's organized around a set of "cards" that can be drawn on. It's designed to allow users to create simple interactive projects without any programming, but there's also a powerful scripting language available for more sophisticated projects. http://beyondloom.com/decker/ Some examples of how people are using Decker: https://itch.io/games/tag-decker. - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

• Inkbase: Programmable Ink (2022)

  You might be interested in at least some aspects of Decker: http://beyondloom.com/decker/. - Source: Hacker News / 11 months ago

• Home-Cooked Software and Barefoot Developers

  The first two points are foundational design principles for Decker[1], a programming environment which can be used as a local application or as a single-file self-contained web page which still retains all the development tools. The same is true for TiddlyWiki[2]. The web ecosystem already provides the substrate necessary to realize these visions, it's a matter of building things with a particular perspective in... - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• Daylight: A 60fps e-ink tablet

  A pen-tablet with a transflective display and a commodity OS is very compelling. I've been working for a few years on a "multimedia sketchpad"[0] application with a primarily grayscale UI that screams for a device like this. I imagine the browser port might already work acceptably, but perhaps I'll revisit a native Android port with the Daylight in mind... [0] http://beyondloom.com/decker/. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• Ask HN: Modern Day Equivalent to HyperCard?

  1. Decker is the closest modern equivalent https://beyondloom.com/decker/. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• A Love Letter to Tinkerable Software

  As a young child with only the scarcest grasp of programming, I spent endless hours using ResEdit to crack open and customize every application on my mac. Every game and utility was filled with its own surprises; graphics I could edit, tables of strings to pore over, dialogs to rearrange, menus to customize, and so much more. I never had a manual, but everything was so straightforward and clear I learned... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Show HN: Lua Carousel, create little programs on desktop or mobile devices

  If you want something like Shoes, perhaps try PySimpleGUI or Redlang's "view" dialect. If you want a drag-and-drop visual builder like HyperCard, you might like Decker: https://beyondloom.com/decker/. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Ask HN: Why did Visual Basic die?

  Why not give Decker a spin? It's similar to HyperCard, but open source, runs nearly everywhere, and it's under active development: http://beyondloom.com/decker/. - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

• Lua: The Little Language That Could

  Anytime Lua comes up I'm reminded of John Earnest's Lil scripting language[1]. It's inspired by Lua and Q, built for Decker[2] which is a re-imagined version of HyperCard. Generally though, I love lua for its embeddability and am extremely happy anytime I see someone chatting about integrating it. Modding and scripting in games was a tremendous motivation for me to dig more into programming and these approachable... - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

• Small Basic

  You should really take a look at https://beyondloom.com/decker/ - It has a web implementation (so, usable everywhere including iOS), and an SDL implementation. It captures the original HyperCard spirit better than anything Apple would release today. The language is not HyperTalk or AppleTalk - it's a mix between Lua and APL, which is about as readable but much nicer to write. And if you find this interesting, look... - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

• Hypercard got its Color Back

  If you're interested in an environment similar to HyperCard that runs on modern computers and produces documents that can be shared easily, have a look at Decker: https://beyondloom.com/decker/ The built-in drawing tools are 1-bit, but internally Decker uses paletted color, and there are ways to import and manipulate color images, as well as draw in color programmatically: https://itch.io/post/7387198. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

• Gambas – open-source Basic for Linux inspired by VB

  It's a lot more like HyperCard than VisualBasic, but Decker is a FOSS rapid prototyping environment that runs virtually everywhere: https://beyondloom.com/decker/. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

• Daily.place

  You can, however, have a single html document containing an editing environment that can be used to "drag-and-drop" together a calculator: https://beyondloom.com/decker/. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago