HyperCard, Visual Basic and the Importance of the Novice Developer. Interesting article that puts HyperCard in relation to Handheld Developer. And after playing around with Handheld Developer, I would say they are not completely wrong - it is a nice visual environment for creating iOS web applications with integrated hosting with which you can quickly put together a prototype and even get server-side scripting in JavaScript. Ok, it is not quite cheap, but there is a test version to see if you could have fun with it. The applications are actually not so fixed on iOS, because in principle it is just HTML5 and JavaScript - and should therefore also work with Androids (I have not tried that yet).