I was pretty heavy into the QBasic community in the 2000s, and move into the FreeBASIC community once it was stable. I'd highly recommend FreeBASIC, especially

I was pretty heavy into the QBasic community in the 2000s, and move into the FreeBASIC community once it was stable. I'd highly recommend FreeBASIC, especially if you enjoy C-style programming. Lots of good libraries and good C library support (give or take writing the headers by hand or translating) I tried QB64, but I'd only recommend that if you want nostalgia. By default, it gives that classic QBasic IDE interface, and feels very self contained.