04-21-2023, 11:41 PM
Some of us won't (as well as can't) sign up to get a phone, whether or not it could be free, only to be able to create an account with some lame-ass social-networking site!
Otherwise it's a good question: do young people care QB64 exists?
I'd tell you one thing. I posted in another forum about QB64PE. There was zero interest.
I was once asked to become Linux package maintainer for this product. No thank you. I despise Arch Linux User Repository, that's bad enough like a toxic waste dump. But it was for a thing based on Slackware. "Can't you do it yourself if you're intelligent enough?" "No I need to find out if I have enough memory so I could reduce it more."
Yes I forgot people want it as small as they thought it was in the 1980's and 1990's, but with the speed of 8-core processors. Something to talk about, right? I have to watch more Youtube or do something else to see if the same thing is being done with Python, Haskell, Lua, Rust etc. "Make it faster or I won't accept it released into the public!" "It has to be object-oriented!"
Another thing that is troubling that I keep seeing: people are still on QB64 v2.0.2!
"Well I don't need the new functionality, why upgrade?" Has Windows Update made them that afraid to upgrade anything?
"Now that Defender eats my code, so I won't upgrade, I like what I have now and don't wish to lose it." Fair enough. Blame Microsoft.
Oh well everytime the help system falls out, "No I will not update again! I like it how it is now!"
I should be the same way trying to compile a program and because there is no "detailed" debugger like what could be had with payware, I cannot see one line in the program which has logic which throws the whole thing off. Nobody likes that, even though a programmer from the 1980's could shrug at that.
We have like four people ever posting here admitting openly they use this programming system on Apple Macintosh. They are truly the brave and distinguished ones! More people away from Windows should speak up to make this world a better place.
Sadly, the online "fork" is more promising, with a hope that it could work with portable devices. However that's not going to give me a kewl game like QBZERK, maybe another one Terry wrote which was "Flappy Bird" which didn't work on my computer, the screen was too tall LOL. It's not going to give me an aid to a music studio, just ringtones, music from popular TV shows and maybe mindless beeping.
This post should have been in Off-Topic restricted forum but I want everybody here to see it. Long live QB64(PE).
Otherwise it's a good question: do young people care QB64 exists?
I'd tell you one thing. I posted in another forum about QB64PE. There was zero interest.
I was once asked to become Linux package maintainer for this product. No thank you. I despise Arch Linux User Repository, that's bad enough like a toxic waste dump. But it was for a thing based on Slackware. "Can't you do it yourself if you're intelligent enough?" "No I need to find out if I have enough memory so I could reduce it more."
Yes I forgot people want it as small as they thought it was in the 1980's and 1990's, but with the speed of 8-core processors. Something to talk about, right? I have to watch more Youtube or do something else to see if the same thing is being done with Python, Haskell, Lua, Rust etc. "Make it faster or I won't accept it released into the public!" "It has to be object-oriented!"
Another thing that is troubling that I keep seeing: people are still on QB64 v2.0.2!
"Well I don't need the new functionality, why upgrade?" Has Windows Update made them that afraid to upgrade anything?
"Now that Defender eats my code, so I won't upgrade, I like what I have now and don't wish to lose it." Fair enough. Blame Microsoft.
Oh well everytime the help system falls out, "No I will not update again! I like it how it is now!"
I should be the same way trying to compile a program and because there is no "detailed" debugger like what could be had with payware, I cannot see one line in the program which has logic which throws the whole thing off. Nobody likes that, even though a programmer from the 1980's could shrug at that.
We have like four people ever posting here admitting openly they use this programming system on Apple Macintosh. They are truly the brave and distinguished ones! More people away from Windows should speak up to make this world a better place.
Sadly, the online "fork" is more promising, with a hope that it could work with portable devices. However that's not going to give me a kewl game like QBZERK, maybe another one Terry wrote which was "Flappy Bird" which didn't work on my computer, the screen was too tall LOL. It's not going to give me an aid to a music studio, just ringtones, music from popular TV shows and maybe mindless beeping.
This post should have been in Off-Topic restricted forum but I want everybody here to see it. Long live QB64(PE).