EndBASIC 0.14: Are we multimedia yet?

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• So a few questions: 1. Does this support threading? 2. Can I develop my website using this? 3. Can I develop a Claude competitor using this?

  Much thanks!

  by pkphilip
• The demo does indeed sound like BASIC.
  by sph
• This is very cool, though I'd want to see typed FUNCTION blocks.
  by ChicagoDave
• What do you mean? FUNCTIONs are supported, and their arguments and return values are strongly typed.
  by jmmv
• https://blitzmax.org is always going to be my preferred BASIC.
  by Daunk
• Always nice having an BASIC update.

  > For extra trivia, note that the convention in Visual Basic is to use CamelCase.

  This actually traces back to other BASIC dialects already in MS-DOS, I can tell this was already the common convention on Turbo BASIC, and QuickBASIC.

  There were also tools that would format to the desired way, long before go fmt became a thing.

  by pjmlp
• The IDEs would format the desired way as soon as you cursored off the line in some cases. This had benefits and drawbacks: it would actually parse the line, so if there was a syntax error, you had to dismiss the dialog and fix it before you could move anywhere. Kind of a pain when you're roughing out code.

  Out of modern IDEs for more conventional languages, the one that comes the closest to the behavior I want in this regard is Emacs, which is one reason I've stuck with it lo these 30 years.

  by bitwize
• If you like QuickBASIC, perhaps FreeBASIC is also an interesting choice.

  For many years, it practically only supports Windows, Linux, and DOS. Now add macOS into the list: https://deb.fbxl.net/macos/

  by anta40