FreeBASIC 1.10.0 has been released

Congratulations to the team.

I was pretty interested in checking out this project back when I was researching different BASICs.

It was obviously way more serious than a lot of other dialects, even just in the general community vibe, but also the language / experience has some considerable depth and complexity to it.

There was less "ah, my childhood" nostalgia to the experience compared with other dialects, and almost a "don't even come here with your sappy nostalgia, we are very modern" aspect to some community discussions I read.

I would guess that this kind of community has to deal with periodic waves of really intense "will this component be modernized" feedback, some of which is more urgent and obvious, and maybe less gentle at the same time.

And while there's maturity to the tech, I'm sure it's also been hard to mature while dealing with the tendency for all older languages of a given dialect to be grouped and kind of objectively criticized from that outsider perspective, as this phenomenon must interfere with the ability to translate or understand even really good outside feedback.

The community also had the unfortunate experience where someone built a third-party docs site, which site then became popular with search engines, and then when it got outdated / unmaintained over time, no one could reach the site owner. So a lot of duplicate effort had to be made to establish a new SEO campaign on the FB Wiki, not just documenting the language there.

Anyway, I think it's a pretty interesting project and there's a lot of things you can do with the language if you are interested in modern BASIC languages.