RunRevKev · HackerTrans

12 years agodiscuss

HyperCard was ground breaking in its day for sure. I'm the CEO of LiveCode. We're an open source, modernized platform that lets you build apps for all popular platforms and devices. We still retain the best ideas from the original HyperCard. We have a vibrant active community with many successful apps developed. We also created one of the top100 Kickstarter campaigns of all time last year, to build a next generation version of the platform! Check us out at livecode.com.

RunRevKev

17 years agodiscuss

Thanks for the comments about Rev. A few responses:

Yes, the product has historically been something of a niche desktop development tool (perhaps of particular interest to former HyperCard developers). That said it has seen its share of success, with large scale enterprise applications, real time systems and commercial shrink wrapped software, along with the tools, utilities, shareware and educational software you would expect for this type of tool.

The big news is that we are relaunching the product this year on the Web as a mainstream, modern language with a free entry-level version for both the browser and server. Its fast, efficient, with modern features like nested arrays and OO behaviors. To support this relaunch there will be some major new site sections on getting started with literally hundreds of code examples and walk-throughs, so if you're interested please do check the site out again over the next few weeks.

Contrary to the popular myth, I would argue that English is not a verbose method of programming, it requires much, much less code than a traditional lower-level language. And, the typical programmer spends a lot more time reading code than writing it. English is highly readable, doing a much better job of reflecting the way the human mind works. Once you get into the mindset, it really is very productive. We have a really exciting launch coming up and I think we can make a positive impact on the way that certain types of software gets written.

Kevin Miller RunRev CEO