Comment by zahlman
1 day ago
You said it well. The aesthetic is so much more about building your project within the project itself (like what Jupyter and Marimo did for Python, but more so because you also lay out GUI this way), having built-in components, designing around very simple "multimedia" integrations (push a button and a sound plays! With a single command in the event handler!) etc. than about any of the technical limitations.
To me, a properly modern "Hypercard" would be something like if Marimo and Pygame had a baby, and that baby was IDLE except it didn't suck.
> IDLE except it didn't suck.
Hmm, I put that poorly, and can't edit now. I'm really thinking more about the entire Tkinter stack, and the way that IDLE is used both to demonstrate it and to provide a way to edit the Python code needed to interact with it.