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Hi there, I'm one of the PencilCase devs that worked on the JS engine. The easiest way to get started with PencilCase is using events and actions in the GUI, no programming required. If you want more control you can program in JavaScript as well with access to all of the objects on your cards, web requests, etc. You get the best of both worlds.

That helps. Thanks

HyperTalk could be done in JS as an intermediate compilation step. (Which we know because that's exactly what TileStack did before it died: http://www.cnet.com/news/tilestack-hypercard-comes-back-from... )

It's a little confusing what functionality is where. I get the sense it's a OS X development suite (à la Adobe's ability to publish native iOS apps) with some kind of app companion (to include AppDrop?).

I think it remains to be seen exactly how much "programming" you can do natively on iOS