What are key differences between Hypercard and "Rapid Application Development", "Visual Programming" tools like Visual Basic?
Visual Basic is not dead, it's still in development (although in .NET form, which might have steeper learning curve). It was highly hyped in past too, but now it has only niche uses, and it's used not as "bicycle for mind", instead mostly for handling bureaucracy in large corporations.
I'm sure "calculator" example will be very similar in Visual Basic.
There are lots of no-code, low-code tools but they almost always fail and become discontinued quickly. Only spreadsheets thrive out of these.
There should be other reasons for that, not "corporations don't want users to program their computers".
Visual Basic is not dead, it's still in development (although in .NET form, which might have steeper learning curve). It was highly hyped in past too, but now it has only niche uses, and it's used not as "bicycle for mind", instead mostly for handling bureaucracy in large corporations.
I'm sure "calculator" example will be very similar in Visual Basic.
There are lots of no-code, low-code tools but they almost always fail and become discontinued quickly. Only spreadsheets thrive out of these.
There should be other reasons for that, not "corporations don't want users to program their computers".