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> I soon got the impression that QBasic community has usually been another case of the blind leading the blind. I have a feeling this was especially the case i
by TonyTrapp 6y ago
> I soon got the impression that QBasic community has usually been another case of the blind leading the blind.
I have a feeling this was especially the case in the 90s, but there have been some great people sharing high-quality works in the early 2000s QBasic scene.
- capableweb 6y ago> especially the case in the 90s You're in for a shock, we're still in the "blind leading the blind" phase as GitHub stars and Twitter followers currently dictate who's a "leader" in the software engineering world. With the invention of social media and their likes, our work and "innovation" is driven by hype more than ever before.
- TonyTrapp 6y agoI was specifically talking about QBasic here. Given how much the user base of that language has shrinked in the last 20 years, there's less blind leaders. :) If you are still working with QBasic these days, then it's probably either because that's what you have always been doing (and you are probably "blind" in that regard), or you are exploring retro tech that you grew up with as a teenager and are highly experienced now, like the writer of this blog post.