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    RunRev Blog

    runrev.com · Company blog · on HN since 2009

    RunRev, later LiveCode, is the company behind a HyperCard-like programming environment for desktop and mobile apps, and its blog covers releases and tutorials.

    Visit blogHN submissions
    ProgrammingRetro ComputingMobile & Apple
    What HN says

    HN commenters bring it up in HyperCard threads as a modern successor. Fans call it productive and fun, and note it descends from HyperCard-style tools.

    Stats for nerds
    19HN people shared it
    5linked in comments
    41story points
    Feb 2014last shared
    2009people per year2014

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    What HN people wrote when they linked it

    • coolestukMar 2009

      I'm really appalling at maths, and yet I love programming, and have been doing it full-time for over 10 years now. I came to programming very late in life, and almost had to claw my way into the industry. I was almost 30 before I even touched a PC.

      There are the very odd time when I suddenly realize I need something from my school maths education (which was before 1978), and then I have to search out that stuff (e.g. geometry and trigonometry) and finally find a use for it.

      I know I would be a better programmer if I understood maths better, but then I believe almost everyone would be improved by a better understanding of maths. I'm sure that studying programming will actually make some areas of maths more relevant for you.

      It all depends on the kind of programming you want to do - in some areas I guess not being a mathalete might be a great hindrance.

      I'm pretty sure it will be frowned upon to mention any particular language here, but Hypertalk really doesn't feel much like programming. Maybe it's because my speech patterns have actually started to resemble Hypertalk. Hypertalk lives on in http://www.runrev.com/ . (I have no connection with them other than as a user of their software.)

      I wish I was in your place. I'd take every opportunity to learn maths, but I wouldn't let my maths ability/disability get in the way of my enjoyment of programming. It's a fantastic buzz, and I never grow tired of it (well, sometimes I do get a little frustrated).

      I'm not sure how…

    • mericOct 2010

      Hmm I did it backwards.
      Step 1: Program games. Step 2: Learn to program.

      Serious. Remember Hypercard? Well back when I was 12 or so I used powerpoint to write adventure games. I put these links on each slide, and when you click one you get linked to another slide. Then I discovered gamemaker and used that. http://alstaffieri.com/gamemaker.html (Still no programming yet.)

      After gamemaker, I got up to "Runtime Revolution". http://www.runrev.com/ I stored "variables" in textfields and wrote gui programming scripts (when you click this button, put 5 into that textfield. if the textfield contains 5, show dialog box "you went into the wrong tunnel and fell".)

      When I finally realized revolution can't really make games either, I moved forward to TNTBasic http://tntbasic.com/ and finally learned what a "variable" really means. Took me maybe 2 years.

      These days, I program websites, not games.

    • cstrossJun 2012

      Yes, HyperCard spawned a number of clones, notably Supercard: http://www.supercard.us/supercard/index.html and MetaCard: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metacard

      (The latter evolved considerably, was acquired by Runtime Revolution http://www.runrev.com/ and is now called LiveCode; it's sold as a rapid application deployment platform on desktop OSs, iOS and Android.)

      Supercard is noteworthy because it supports direct import of Hypercard stacks (the Supertalk language is a superset of Hypertalk).

      There are other Hypercard like systems out there. For example, on iOS/iPad there's NovoCard -- a Hypercard like system for iOS that uses JavaScript for scripting: http://plectrum.com/novocard/

    • SeamusBradyFeb 2011

      How about Runtime Revolutions LiveCode?
      I have been a fan for years - never used the mobile version but they are a great little company and their other products rock.

      LiveCode is an offshoot of the HyperCard codebase and will run on everything from a toaster to your car. The apps seem pretty slick in the demos. Android support in in testing.

      http://www.runrev.com/products/mobile-deployment/overview/

    • hgaMay 2010

      Well, a minimum of politeness in public is expected.

      Me, I might have said "near totalitarian present", echoing in part ryandvm's comment. What really gets me, and could by many be counted as a final straw, was Jobs saying "the platform needs a HyperCard" and then his personally disproving RunRev's version: http://www.runrev.com/company/runrev-blog/revmobile-and-apples-iphone-sdk-agreement/

    • JadeNBJul 2010

      Others have mentioned RunRev (http://www.runrev.com); there's also TileStack (http://tilestack.com). I'm not sure if RunRev will do anything for you, but TileStack seems to have limited facility to run existing HyperCard code; see http://tilestack.com/stacks/?search=%28tags%3Ahypercard%29&sort=name.

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