Some of us remember HyperCard, an interesting branch in the evolutionary tree of programming languages. If you’re of a certain age, you might even have learned programming with HyperCard. Hyperscript is a newer technology that takes some of the benefits of HyperCard, especially its simplicity and English-like syntax, and applies it to the browser environment. It’s a kind of JavaScript replacement that can work standalone or in tandem with HTMX to simplify common scripting needs on the JavaScript front end.
