Decker Reviews and details

Social recommendations and mentions

• 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 / 4 months 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 / 5 months 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 / 8 months 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 / 11 months 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 / 12 months 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 / about 1 year ago