There is a next generation implementation of hypertalk, livecode. It began life as metacard (a hypercard clone) and has now evolved to something that can export to mobile, html5 and multiplatform applications. Basically you program in simple english with a smalltalk message passing philosophy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiveCode

A proud user of MetaCard and RunRev for many years! Although these days js, Obj-C, and other more traditional languages are my bread and butter.