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by threeseed 782 days ago
Not Hypercard but there is a company still making a Visual Basic 5 clone: https://www.xojo.com

When I was young I found it a great way to get into programming since it's visual with immediate feedback.

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Aye; that used to be called REALbasic, and I had good experiences with that in the late 90s/early 00s during my GCSEs/A-levels thanks to finding it on a cover CD of some Mac magazine in my local newsagent.
VB 5 (and, especially, 6) were some of the best UI builders ever designed, IMO.

Yeah, there was a crap language underneath, but I've never seen anything better at whipping up a serviceable GUI in a hurry.

Back in the day I sometimes wrote the UI for Windows C and C++ programs using VB6. It was that good.