Fifty years of hypernuclei and beyond

On this occasion of marking 50 years to the inception of hypernuclear physics, a brief overview of strangeness nuclear physics is given, focussing on the recent determination of spin-dependent effects in Λ hypernuclei, on the recently established repulsive nature of the ∑ nuclear potential and particularly on new developments in double-strangeness physics. Special emphasis is placed on the extrapolation to strange hadronic matter.