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IS FreeBaisc still a thing nowadays ? I understand it's surely less popular, but are there people using it on HN ?
by wiz21c 11mo ago
IS FreeBaisc still a thing nowadays ? I understand it's surely less popular, but are there people using it on HN ?
- giancarlostoro 11mo agoGood question, I'm not even sure what I was looking up when I found that thread, I think I was curious about something else entirely, but as someone who learned to code with VB6 the link intrigued me, I mean come on, that thread title is just great. I wanted FreeBASIC to have a RAD IDE back when I was still clinging to VB6 as it was being replaced by VB.NET. I hope someday Microsoft open sources bits and pieces of VB6.
- stuaxo 11mo agoWe're up to GWBasic, so I'd hope for QuickBasic in its various forms, next. After that are the various visual basics. For DOS we are up to 4, hopefully 5 is next which has interesting TUI apps like DOSSHELL as well as QBasic and EDIT and QuickHelp.
- supercheetah 11mo agoHave you checked out Gambas[1]? 1. https://gambaswiki.org/website/en/main.html https://gambaswiki.org/website/en/main.html
- zoeysmithe 11mo agoI imagine 99% of its use are people maintaining quickbasic legacy apps.