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There's similar projects like QB64 and L-Basic. I have to wonder if keeping language variants alive will be of historic significance hundreds of years from now. Will anyone care about early computing to this extent?

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There are quite a few other BASICs. FreeBASIC, PureBASIC, etc.

See:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:BASIC_programming_l...

and

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:BASIC_interpreters

Some will be obsolete, of course.

And a really weird one, BASCOM-AVR. Used it extensively in my robot built for my fourth year engineering project. Nice thing is you could still use ASM interrupt handlers without a lot of hassle.

Plain BASCOM(.EXE) was the name of a BASIC compiler, IIRC, in DOS days, probably. Did not use it myself, but I think I remember a colleague using it.

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