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Nice article, and happy to see it on the front page! QBasic was very impressive for its time. It feels as if we lost that kind of integrated editor sometime in
by jmmv 4y ago
Nice article, and happy to see it on the front page!
QBasic was very impressive for its time. It feels as if we lost that kind of integrated editor sometime in the 90s and are now only coming up to a similar level of integration... at a much higher cost. QBasic's interface, integrated help, debugger, etc. were a joy to work with (similar for Turbo C++, etc.) And the same applies to Visual Basic later on, although that's kinda out of scope for what we are discussing here.
Anyhow. I also wanted to mention EndBASIC (https://www.endbasic.dev/ https://www.endbasic.dev/), a little project I've been working on and that tries to recreate a similar BASIC and MS-DOS hybrid environment. (Spoiler alert: it runs in the browser as well as a desktop app so it's trivial to test it out!) The end goal is to be able to write games like Gorillas and Nibbles -- and so far I got a pong clone running, which means it's getting pretty close to that goal! I'm currently working on adding some needed features, like... user-defined functions, a better type system, and the ability to run publicly shared programs with just a URL. So stay tuned for more :)
- mattl 4y agoThere was VB for DOS which had a similar interface.