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Lots of interesting gems.

I am missing old BASICs like Turbo Basic, but then again I guess they wouldn't be usefull in modern days.

> they wouldn't be usefull in modern days.

I’ve been thinking about it a lot. Usefulness, joy.

I think modern BASIC and Pascal environments strike a reasonably good balance where you can write non-industrial programs where you can ignore all the “engineering” and “bureaucratic” processes that support building larger scale systems with many contributors and focus on getting something done or have some fun.

Even industrial, check MIKROE compilers for commercial embedded development, these are in business since the old days.

There was PowerBasic (which is what Turbobasic morphed into) but it's been dead for over a decade at this point.

I've heard good things about PureBASIC [1] but haven't gotten an opportunity to play with it yet.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PureBasic

I can highly recommend PureBasic. Still actively developed and with an active community.

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