[wunderbaba]

I grew up on DOS 6.22 and quick basic 4.5, so I have a huge amount of nostalgia for how low friction it was to start programming back in the day.

There's a scene in Stranger Things where Sean Astin's character tries to brute force a code using a basic variant, and it was surprising to me to see code on a popular TV show that was remarkably faithful to the original.

https://specularrealms.com/2021/04/21/strangest-things

[zozbot234]

Modern IDE's are finally approaching a "low friction" workflow with things like LSP and DAP, which are largely independent of the programming language. The intuitive UX of QuickBasic, VB-DOS, the Turbo series etc. however is still very compelling, in a way that has yet to be comprehensively ported to modern systems.