[RodgerTheGreat]

It's also worth considering that HyperCard was very effective at allowing users to build or customize useful tools for themselves while writing little to no code. You could write "programs" with HyperTalk, but you could also just pick through the extensive examples HyperCard shipped with and kitbash something, or make searchable databases with little more than a card background with some fields. A small amount of scripting could go a long way, because the surrounding environment and tools did heavy lifting for you.

The HN audience skews toward programming per se as the ultimate expression of power and flexibility with a computer, but HyperCard was accessible and empowering in very different ways from QBASIC or an iPython notebook.

[kalleboo]

Yeah HyperCard came with a stack called “Button Ideas” with a bunch of ready-made buttons you could copy and paste into your stack with no coding needed