[analog31]

I loved HC, and tried out LiveCode. The problem for me is the "vast" part.

I also loved Visual Basic when it was young, but it just kept getting more complex and bloated. I think Microsoft was trying to counter the stereotype of VB being for amateurs, by making it as comprehensive as their other development tools. (cf. recent HN thread about "professional tools"). LiveCode seems to suffer from that tendency.

When it got to the point where I could no longer make sense of VB, I went language shopping. For me, the new HyperCard is Python plus Tkinter plus Matplotlib. Heaven. Granted almost every program that I write is "some buttons, parameters, computation, and a graph." The only downside is that it doesn't port to Android.