suggestions for future QB64
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(07-26-2022, 01:09 AM)madscijr Wrote: So, for anyone is reading this, the takeaway from me is: 
* native support for arrays inside UDTs and 
* a native dictionary or associative array 
* HTTP/HTTPS

FWIW @mnrvovrfc, I currently work on QB64 and think all of these are great suggestions Smile Built-in HTTP/HTTPS support is one of the things I'm currently working on and I've made some pretty good progress. Arrays in UDTs and built-in support for some other data structures is something else that I think is desperately needed (if for nothing else, to improve the code of QB64 itself). I think many of madscijr's other suggestions are also quite good.

Are all of them going to happen soon, or ever? Absolutely not Big Grin We're a pretty small team (and any help at all is appreciated). But I think I can speak for all of us who work on QB64 in saying that we _do_ want suggestions like this, that's the only way for us to know what features people think QB64 is currently lacking and get a sense for what the most common feature requests are. Obviously if someone is demanding we do something then yes that's a problem, but madscijr's comments aren't even close to that.

Edit: I'll also add I agree with madscijr's general idea around what the purpose of BASIC is. QB64 is already a perfectly capable language, you can certainly implement your own HTTP logic, your own dictionary, fake arrays in UDTs, etc. I and many other members have done that often Big Grin But you really shouldn't have too, frequently these implementations tend to have bad limitations or usability issues, and for newcomers they create a fairly big barrier for what should be simple things. So that said I definitely think we wouldn't exclude new features from consideration just because it's technically possible to do them today.
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suggestions for future QB64 - by Jack - 04-17-2022, 10:41 PM
RE: suggestion for future QB64 - by Pete - 04-18-2022, 05:57 AM
RE: suggestion for future QB64 - by PhilOfPerth - 04-24-2022, 12:14 AM
RE: suggestion for future QB64 - by bplus - 04-24-2022, 01:34 AM
RE: suggestion for future QB64 - by Pete - 04-24-2022, 01:51 AM
RE: suggestion for future QB64 - by bplus - 04-26-2022, 06:12 PM
RE: suggestion for future QB64 - by Pete - 04-26-2022, 06:24 PM
RE: suggestion for future QB64 - by justsomeguy - 04-26-2022, 10:28 PM
RE: suggestion for future QB64 - by Pete - 04-26-2022, 11:03 PM
RE: suggestion for future QB64 - by Fortran66 - 04-29-2022, 09:46 PM
RE: suggestion for future QB64 - by SMcNeill - 04-26-2022, 11:11 PM
RE: suggestion for future QB64 - by Tim - 04-27-2022, 05:52 AM
RE: suggestions for future QB64 - by justsomeguy - 04-26-2022, 11:39 PM
RE: suggestions for future QB64 - by PhilOfPerth - 04-26-2022, 11:58 PM
RE: suggestions for future QB64 - by Pete - 04-27-2022, 12:26 AM
RE: suggestions for future QB64 - by admin - 04-27-2022, 12:36 AM
RE: suggestions for future QB64 - by Pete - 04-27-2022, 12:50 AM
RE: suggestions for future QB64 - by admin - 04-27-2022, 06:14 AM
RE: suggestions for future QB64 - by Tim - 04-27-2022, 06:30 AM
RE: suggestions for future QB64 - by admin - 04-27-2022, 06:35 AM
RE: suggestions for future QB64 - by Tim - 04-27-2022, 04:27 PM
RE: suggestions for future QB64 - by Pete - 04-27-2022, 04:38 PM
RE: suggestions for future QB64 - by Tim - 04-27-2022, 11:39 PM
RE: suggestions for future QB64 - by SMcNeill - 04-28-2022, 03:04 PM
RE: suggestions for future QB64 - by CharlieJV - 04-28-2022, 05:03 PM
RE: suggestions for future QB64 - by crumpets - 04-28-2022, 02:07 PM
RE: suggestions for future QB64 - by Coolman - 04-28-2022, 05:02 PM
RE: suggestions for future QB64 - by bplus - 04-28-2022, 05:15 PM
RE: suggestions for future QB64 - by CharlieJV - 04-28-2022, 05:32 PM
RE: suggestions for future QB64 - by SMcNeill - 04-28-2022, 06:37 PM
RE: suggestions for future QB64 - by bplus - 04-28-2022, 05:58 PM
RE: suggestions for future QB64 - by aurel - 04-28-2022, 08:28 PM
RE: suggestions for future QB64 - by Pete - 04-28-2022, 08:33 PM
RE: suggestions for future QB64 - by Pete - 04-28-2022, 11:42 PM
RE: suggestions for future QB64 - by Tim - 05-05-2022, 06:37 PM
RE: suggestions for future QB64 - by SMcNeill - 04-28-2022, 08:31 PM
RE: suggestions for future QB64 - by SMcNeill - 04-28-2022, 08:38 PM
RE: suggestions for future QB64 - by Tim - 04-28-2022, 09:01 PM
RE: suggestions for future QB64 - by bplus - 04-28-2022, 10:35 PM
RE: suggestions for future QB64 - by Dav - 04-28-2022, 11:38 PM
RE: suggestions for future QB64 - by aurel - 04-29-2022, 12:00 PM
RE: suggestions for future QB64 - by bplus - 04-29-2022, 06:42 PM
RE: suggestions for future QB64 - by Pete - 04-29-2022, 07:03 PM
RE: suggestions for future QB64 - by bplus - 04-29-2022, 07:47 PM
RE: suggestions for future QB64 - by Pete - 04-29-2022, 07:54 PM
RE: suggestions for future QB64 - by bplus - 04-29-2022, 07:57 PM
RE: suggestions for future QB64 - by SMcNeill - 04-29-2022, 09:56 PM
RE: suggestions for future QB64 - by madscijr - 05-05-2022, 05:59 PM
RE: suggestions for future QB64 - by mnrvovrfc - 07-25-2022, 06:07 AM
RE: suggestions for future QB64 - by madscijr - 07-25-2022, 03:18 PM
RE: suggestions for future QB64 - by mnrvovrfc - 07-25-2022, 10:25 PM
RE: suggestions for future QB64 - by madscijr - 07-26-2022, 01:09 AM
RE: suggestions for future QB64 - by mnrvovrfc - 07-26-2022, 07:51 PM
RE: suggestions for future QB64 - by SMcNeill - 07-26-2022, 09:15 PM
RE: suggestions for future QB64 - by Pete - 05-05-2022, 06:23 PM
RE: suggestions for future QB64 - by madscijr - 05-05-2022, 08:29 PM
RE: suggestions for future QB64 - by madscijr - 05-05-2022, 08:45 PM
RE: suggestions for future QB64 - by crumpets - 05-07-2022, 09:01 AM
RE: suggestions for future QB64 - by dano - 05-12-2022, 11:32 PM
RE: suggestions for future QB64 - by RNBW - 07-25-2022, 01:44 PM
RE: suggestions for future QB64 - by bplus - 05-07-2022, 03:57 PM
RE: suggestions for future QB64 - by RhoSigma - 07-25-2022, 03:22 PM
RE: suggestions for future QB64 - by DSMan195276 - 07-26-2022, 02:52 AM
RE: suggestions for future QB64 - by TempodiBasic - 07-26-2022, 12:52 PM
RE: suggestions for future QB64 - by DSMan195276 - 07-26-2022, 04:32 PM
RE: suggestions for future QB64 - by TempodiBasic - 07-26-2022, 06:59 PM
RE: suggestions for future QB64 - by madscijr - 07-26-2022, 07:27 PM



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