08-26-2022, 01:51 AM
(This post was last modified: 08-26-2022, 01:53 AM by mnrvovrfc.
Edit Reason: Mention Racket (LISP descendant)
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Popularity is subjective. A popularity contest on Internet cannot be taken seriously.
What is the most popular programming language in this here world? QB64!
That's what I mean. I hate Python. I also like programming in Lua but would like to do even more such as creating a "virtual machine" to have access to its tables and regular-expression engine. But I don't do that much programming in the first place to justify it. I don't think I would have made more use of Lua if the "popularity" were reversed with Python. Now Python is everywhere, even in QB64... or is that right? I looked at the "statistics" on Github for programming languages involved in a project. Really wanted to like Terra, and there is this other "super" version of Lua called Pallene in which one of the original authors of Lua was involved, as replacement for Luajit. This Pallene I discovered today on Reddit.
Don't get me started about programming for "bash" terminal. Also tried to understand M$ Powershell, cobbled up something but stupid Windows refused to give me permission to run the script, which turned me off forever from that. I wish File Explorer gave me the option to open a directory into "cmd.exe" instead of that stupid other trash terminal.
I also dislike C and C++ but have to live with it sometimes. The way the C++ "standard" grew up has bewildered me and many other people. When I bought my first "primer" book for C++ I don't think the language had templates. C is "popular" only because people still want to write firmware modules, device drivers, command-line tools and stuff like that without having to do it entirely in assembly language. I'm not sure but "gcc" was packaged with Slackware since the very beginning 29 years ago, then Debian started a few months later and so on. There was C and the "bash" terminal language at least for programming on Linux, before installing or hunting down dependencies.
I still like Pascal, which is what my course for computer science in high school but found Free Pascal unusable in 64-bit, and I created only two or three CLI programs with the 32-bit version, one of them for the GZIP packer a lot like "_DEFLATE" and "_INFLATE" part of QB64 now.
Freebasic and Purebasic aren't very "popular" neither. The latter is payware, which puts off a good deal of hobbyists, as well as the problems some people have just getting the 3D graphics examples running. At least this is my point of view. An advantage of Purebasic is the top-notch debugger in the IDE and the standalone one. It has a few competitors such as Xojo, but it's not my thing looking over one payware product or another. I almost can't afford my Internet subscription right now. Freebasic emphasizes portability and tries to please those programmers that want OOP.
QuickBasic (or MS-DOS/QBasic for that matter) makes no list because it became extinct long ago. QuickBasic morphed into M$VB-DOS and then it and BASIC PDS v7.1 were abandoned for the first versions of VB for Windows. M$VB-dot-NET is "popular enough" only because that company forces people to use only their language product if they want to do anything worth something for Windows. A project either offers an SLN file with other things expected to be used in Visual Studio, or "configure", "make install" and scripts like that for Linux only. I'm still trying to build the "libvorbis-tools" and a few other things for 64-bit Windows (while having them in 32-bit) because I don't want to go through Cygwin and MinGW, it's too much complication and wasted disk space. Recently however I've been using Windows less often, so that is less important.
EDIT : LOL almost forgot about LISP! I installed Racket for Windows and would really like to go deep into it. Somebody wrote a QB64 program which was a LISP interpreter, pretty neat which caused me to check out Racket.
This is just my opinion. Sorry TL;DR as usual.
What is the most popular programming language in this here world? QB64!
That's what I mean. I hate Python. I also like programming in Lua but would like to do even more such as creating a "virtual machine" to have access to its tables and regular-expression engine. But I don't do that much programming in the first place to justify it. I don't think I would have made more use of Lua if the "popularity" were reversed with Python. Now Python is everywhere, even in QB64... or is that right? I looked at the "statistics" on Github for programming languages involved in a project. Really wanted to like Terra, and there is this other "super" version of Lua called Pallene in which one of the original authors of Lua was involved, as replacement for Luajit. This Pallene I discovered today on Reddit.
Don't get me started about programming for "bash" terminal. Also tried to understand M$ Powershell, cobbled up something but stupid Windows refused to give me permission to run the script, which turned me off forever from that. I wish File Explorer gave me the option to open a directory into "cmd.exe" instead of that stupid other trash terminal.
I also dislike C and C++ but have to live with it sometimes. The way the C++ "standard" grew up has bewildered me and many other people. When I bought my first "primer" book for C++ I don't think the language had templates. C is "popular" only because people still want to write firmware modules, device drivers, command-line tools and stuff like that without having to do it entirely in assembly language. I'm not sure but "gcc" was packaged with Slackware since the very beginning 29 years ago, then Debian started a few months later and so on. There was C and the "bash" terminal language at least for programming on Linux, before installing or hunting down dependencies.
I still like Pascal, which is what my course for computer science in high school but found Free Pascal unusable in 64-bit, and I created only two or three CLI programs with the 32-bit version, one of them for the GZIP packer a lot like "_DEFLATE" and "_INFLATE" part of QB64 now.
Freebasic and Purebasic aren't very "popular" neither. The latter is payware, which puts off a good deal of hobbyists, as well as the problems some people have just getting the 3D graphics examples running. At least this is my point of view. An advantage of Purebasic is the top-notch debugger in the IDE and the standalone one. It has a few competitors such as Xojo, but it's not my thing looking over one payware product or another. I almost can't afford my Internet subscription right now. Freebasic emphasizes portability and tries to please those programmers that want OOP.
QuickBasic (or MS-DOS/QBasic for that matter) makes no list because it became extinct long ago. QuickBasic morphed into M$VB-DOS and then it and BASIC PDS v7.1 were abandoned for the first versions of VB for Windows. M$VB-dot-NET is "popular enough" only because that company forces people to use only their language product if they want to do anything worth something for Windows. A project either offers an SLN file with other things expected to be used in Visual Studio, or "configure", "make install" and scripts like that for Linux only. I'm still trying to build the "libvorbis-tools" and a few other things for 64-bit Windows (while having them in 32-bit) because I don't want to go through Cygwin and MinGW, it's too much complication and wasted disk space. Recently however I've been using Windows less often, so that is less important.
EDIT : LOL almost forgot about LISP! I installed Racket for Windows and would really like to go deep into it. Somebody wrote a QB64 program which was a LISP interpreter, pretty neat which caused me to check out Racket.
This is just my opinion. Sorry TL;DR as usual.