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IS FreeBaisc still a thing nowadays ? I understand it's surely less popular, but are there people using it on HN ?

I imagine 99% of its use are people maintaining quickbasic legacy apps.

Good question, I'm not even sure what I was looking up when I found that thread, I think I was curious about something else entirely, but as someone who learned to code with VB6 the link intrigued me, I mean come on, that thread title is just great.

I wanted FreeBASIC to have a RAD IDE back when I was still clinging to VB6 as it was being replaced by VB.NET. I hope someday Microsoft open sources bits and pieces of VB6.

We're up to GWBasic, so I'd hope for QuickBasic in its various forms, next.

After that are the various visual basics.

For DOS we are up to 4, hopefully 5 is next which has interesting TUI apps like DOSSHELL as well as QBasic and EDIT and QuickHelp.

Have you checked out Gambas[1]?

1. https://gambaswiki.org/website/en/main.html

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