Wow. Reading all the comments; makes me feel the grey on my beard.
I'm obviously the target market for this; I touched PureBasic in 2002 and was super-impressed by its performance in 2D graphics on the MAC. So it touches my nostalgia to see the simplicity of its command set in producing multi-window GUI apps in the browser.
It's so interesting to see fellows on here that have no idea what they are looking at, or why it's cool. It's a very niche market I think, and this is what makes it a pity. Back in the day we had BASIC on power up on 8-bit home computers, that's what many of us greybeards learned to code on when we were 10 years old. (And a source of shame in the mid-90's - basic programmers were lamers, ASM coders were cool)... It's nice that you young folk never had to learn assembly to be elite ;-)
I taught high school programming for one year, and used PureBasic as the in-class language. The kids were able to put together games and such things after just a few days. We never really hit the ceiling. The real gem was the IDE experience, built in help, etc. That made everything so much easier.
> JavaScript is analogous to Visual Basic in that it can be used by people with little or no programming experience to quickly construct complex applications.
They meet again, at last. The circle is now complete. When JavaScript left Basic it was but the learner. Now, it is the master.
But JavaScript is only a master of evil. It can't win. WebAssembly shall become more powerful than JavaScript can possibly imagine.
Playing with this now. It's got auto complete and some cool built in examples. Would this let me make a PWA that can install to home screen on iOS?
EDIT: looked through the forums and it's been asked about but doesn't appear to be implemented. Bummer.
I see potential here though. There's loads of examples and they're easy to run and inspect. I would glady pay for this if it could build PWAs, this would let the apps run offline on iOS.
Wow, we are compiling BASIC to JavaScript and which is meant to run in browsers like Electron I assume. Now someone just needs to write Electron in BASIC to close the loop!
Reminds me of TranslationParty. Can we find the equilibrium between JavaScript and BASIC? :)
appstorelottery ·18 days ago
I'm obviously the target market for this; I touched PureBasic in 2002 and was super-impressed by its performance in 2D graphics on the MAC. So it touches my nostalgia to see the simplicity of its command set in producing multi-window GUI apps in the browser.
It's so interesting to see fellows on here that have no idea what they are looking at, or why it's cool. It's a very niche market I think, and this is what makes it a pity. Back in the day we had BASIC on power up on 8-bit home computers, that's what many of us greybeards learned to code on when we were 10 years old. (And a source of shame in the mid-90's - basic programmers were lamers, ASM coders were cool)... It's nice that you young folk never had to learn assembly to be elite ;-)
JohnDeHope ·18 days ago
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peutetre ·19 days ago
> JavaScript is analogous to Visual Basic in that it can be used by people with little or no programming experience to quickly construct complex applications.
They meet again, at last. The circle is now complete. When JavaScript left Basic it was but the learner. Now, it is the master.
But JavaScript is only a master of evil. It can't win. WebAssembly shall become more powerful than JavaScript can possibly imagine.
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pcdoodle ·19 days ago
EDIT: looked through the forums and it's been asked about but doesn't appear to be implemented. Bummer.
I see potential here though. There's loads of examples and they're easy to run and inspect. I would glady pay for this if it could build PWAs, this would let the apps run offline on iOS.
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caseyy ·19 days ago
Reminds me of TranslationParty. Can we find the equilibrium between JavaScript and BASIC? :)
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