>It's good that it died because it doesn't "scale" to the elephantine size of software you're accustomed to?
As someone who's dealt with accounting systems that have started out as Access + Excel + VB Macros, I can say yes, absolutely it is a good thing that it died because it didn't scale.
I was a fan of Hypercard all those years ago. But, in my opinion, that combination: lack of depth + poor syntax, it just wasn't a strong enough contender. It could be kept as an introductory technology, but even there, we can do better. The same fate happened to VB, Actor, Object Vision, Omnis, and so many others. It's a cold world if you can't keep up.
But notice that list. It's all efforts from the 80's and early 90's. We gave up at some point. There's no excuse for that. Shame on Apple, and everyone, for that.
Maybe I'm being too hard on Hypercard, but that criticism is only about that particular technology -- certainly not the effort as a whole.
> It's good that it died because it doesn't "scale" to the elephantine size of software you're accustomed to?
Does nobody else find this hilarious? I mean, the whole persecuted-Mac-fan vibe here; it's so 1990s it's almost a time warp in itself, except this time it's a persecuted-Classic-Mac-fan, and the main entity doing the persecution is Apple itself.
As someone who's dealt with accounting systems that have started out as Access + Excel + VB Macros, I can say yes, absolutely it is a good thing that it died because it didn't scale.