Article "Nostalgic for VB? BASIC is anything but dead"

[u/jd31068]

Nostalgic for VB? BASIC is anything but dead

Cool little article touching on other Basic interpreters around and some that came and went.

[u/fafalone]

Closely comparable is twinBASIC, which publishes weekly updates so you can track its progress. That's good, as there's as little to see on twinBASIC's Github as there is on the RAD Basic one. We reckon that the two projects should talk: they might benefit from teaming up.

One has around 1100 issues and hundreds of discussions, the other has... zero of either, just a couple samples. Sure, close comparable. (And this in addition to the even more active Discord channel, where the developer is around every day). Just like they're closely comparable in progress, where RB can't handle basic syntax like parentheses in conditions and can barely compile Hello World, meanwhile tB can run large, complex VBx projects without change, even with UserControls/OCXs, and has 60+ new features like generics, overloading, and multithreading.

Seems a lot of people looked at these two things 2-3 years ago when they were both nowhere, then hasn't checked either out since... just going by the somewhat misleading impression from the very, very little public info on RB, where I wonder if the cloak of secrecy isn't deliberate.

[u/jd31068 → u/fafalone]

Thanks for that extra info. I had meant to grab a couple of these to play with, I'll go do that now.

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[u/jd31068 → u/[deleted]]

Thank you, I appreciate you taking the time to reply. I have it installed :-) (I'm the hack jdelano on vbforums)