HyperTalk, AppleScript, Prograph, Automator, Swift Playgrounds and Shortcuts – all wonderful tools in their day, but none has brought coding to the crowd.
  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
    8·
    10 months ago

    I was great at Hypercard. I’m not any sort of coder, so it was perfect for me. I was doing complex and cool things with it. Then Apple stopped supporting it and switched to AppleScript. As I said, I’m not any sort of coder, so I couldn’t figure it out. I haven’t created anything complex for computers since.

    • cheese_greater@lemmy.world
      3·
      10 months ago

      You can do a lot of cool things with Shortcuts, they have many of the structures and scripting conventions like loops, variables (Magic variables are super intuitive and easily manipulable), conditions (if else), accessing system state, toggling sensors and capabillities, etc.

      Its a very cool thing that even coders/programmers can appreciate given the higher abstraction level and ease of drag-and-drop approach to composing “programs” (==Shortcuts).

      It can be a little fussy sometimes, however, and it can take longer to drag around than it would to simply type out the verbatim statements and declarations etc