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by disparate_dan
1254 days ago
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While I never used HyperCard, the ‘low floors and high ceilings’ makes me think of spreadsheets. Given that I code all day professionally, I have quite a high bar for using code to solve personal needs, but I love to use spreadsheets - there’s just enough automation to make powerful, useful mini-applications, quickly, without much complexity, and the presentation capabilities are very strong. While there is brittleness - I can share a budget sheet with my wife and it will be broken in minutes - it’s easy to fix and evolve, but most importantly, they are accessible and grokable for someone without much technical knowledge. I guess spreadsheet apps are pretty self-contained so I’m not sure that composability is a strength. |
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