Lots to unpack here minerva, thanks for your response.
QB64 is defined as QB45 + more memory + modern graphics + modern quality of life things. Whatever the stewards wanna do with that is their business, but this is the functional definition. This definition is safe regardless of how one chooses to interpret that off-the-meds post made by Galleon years ago that became the founding gospel of qb64pe. As far as compiled executables go, the core of the language is long, loooooong finished. Updates now are mostly about shiny hubcaps and polishing mirrors, up to perturbative exceptions. Recent work on Print seems nice. Point is though, anyone still using version 2.0-whatever is really not missing much.
This line of thought invokes the definition of BASIC itself. Back in the day, BASIC meant you can walk up to a computer - BASIC was already on there in one way or another - and proceed to start making stuff right off the cuff. No downloads, no forking, no nothing. What's the modern-day equivalence of this? Everyone ready for the bucket of ice water? For that spirit to be still alive, especially considering today's devices, then the browser is your only answer. A growing percentage of us have known this for a long time, and the browser-based versions, which is NOT a synonym for online-only, are flourishing and surpassing qb64 vanilla in many ways.
Which brings me to qbjs, just momentarily. Talking directly to you mn, Terry's Flappy Bird game was implemented in qbjs months ago. Follow this link to play it in a single click: Samples · boxgaming/qbjs Wiki · GitHub (https://github.com/boxgaming/qbjs/wiki/Samples) Lots of stuff is already implemented in qbjs, it's acceleration has been remarkable over the past year or so. All thanks to @dbox and whoever helps him out, but that's beside the point. All that stuff you say about antivirus and defender and that entire apparatus can be dispensed with in light of qbjs too, just sayin.
Aaaaanyway, things are rumbling again. It's been a year, things are still pretty shabby overall and people are getting itchy. We either work on something coherent or watch the cults and sects drift away from all the mutual infighting. This place is too small for a civil war, banning should be banned. If the stewards claim to be leaders, let's urge them to lead. Lead by example. Civility trickles downward and there is a HUGE Gordian knot of uncivility at the top of this thing.
QB64 is defined as QB45 + more memory + modern graphics + modern quality of life things. Whatever the stewards wanna do with that is their business, but this is the functional definition. This definition is safe regardless of how one chooses to interpret that off-the-meds post made by Galleon years ago that became the founding gospel of qb64pe. As far as compiled executables go, the core of the language is long, loooooong finished. Updates now are mostly about shiny hubcaps and polishing mirrors, up to perturbative exceptions. Recent work on Print seems nice. Point is though, anyone still using version 2.0-whatever is really not missing much.
This line of thought invokes the definition of BASIC itself. Back in the day, BASIC meant you can walk up to a computer - BASIC was already on there in one way or another - and proceed to start making stuff right off the cuff. No downloads, no forking, no nothing. What's the modern-day equivalence of this? Everyone ready for the bucket of ice water? For that spirit to be still alive, especially considering today's devices, then the browser is your only answer. A growing percentage of us have known this for a long time, and the browser-based versions, which is NOT a synonym for online-only, are flourishing and surpassing qb64 vanilla in many ways.
Which brings me to qbjs, just momentarily. Talking directly to you mn, Terry's Flappy Bird game was implemented in qbjs months ago. Follow this link to play it in a single click: Samples · boxgaming/qbjs Wiki · GitHub (https://github.com/boxgaming/qbjs/wiki/Samples) Lots of stuff is already implemented in qbjs, it's acceleration has been remarkable over the past year or so. All thanks to @dbox and whoever helps him out, but that's beside the point. All that stuff you say about antivirus and defender and that entire apparatus can be dispensed with in light of qbjs too, just sayin.
Aaaaanyway, things are rumbling again. It's been a year, things are still pretty shabby overall and people are getting itchy. We either work on something coherent or watch the cults and sects drift away from all the mutual infighting. This place is too small for a civil war, banning should be banned. If the stewards claim to be leaders, let's urge them to lead. Lead by example. Civility trickles downward and there is a HUGE Gordian knot of uncivility at the top of this thing.