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Long list.

It would have been very helpful if the list had been categorized in some way --- some potential divisions which would have helped my looking for a project:

- platform --- esp. SBCs such as the Raspberry Pi

- licensing --- opensource/free/commercial

- text mode/graphical IDE (note that there is a short list of IDEs at the bottom)/GUI development

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It would especially have been useful to see what is recommended in this day and age.

Yes, I'd really like to use a basic that is open source but cross platform and compiles to executable. I'm not sure such a thing exists tho!

to answer my own question - poking through this list looks like QB64 would do it but also seems they split into 2 projects - QB64 and QB64PE

in that list there is https://smallbasic.github.io/ ... but there may be better options.

One project which is trying very hard is SmallVisualBasic:

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ModernVB...

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