[jelder]

I really appreciate that they bothered to set an artificial timestamp for these git commits, roughly 30 years before Git itself existed. The thing is, the other files do, too, and the .gitignore is full of hilariously anachronistic references.

[hu3]

Speaking about .gitignore. What is this?

    # MightyMoose
    *.mm.*

I could only find this: https://github.com/MonzUn/MightyMooseCore

Link to the file: https://github.com/microsoft/BASIC-M6502/blob/main/.gitignor...

Regardless, thank you Mr. Hanselman. This is great!

[fishgoesblub]

Looks to be for "Continuous Tests" [0] found through git blame [1]

[0] https://continuoustests.com/

[1] https://github.com/github/gitignore/commit/2183a6c531d7085e2...

[davey48016]

I think it's that.

I don't think that the .gitignore file is meant to reflect anything about when this BASIC interpreter was written, it looks like it's just a MS managed .gitignore that accounts for everything that was ever popular for development in Visual Studio, even things that have been obsolete for decades. In order to handle your most legacy C#, F#, VB.NET, or Visual C++ solutions.

[kubatyszko]

ditto! It was really a nice touch (pun intended since touch is what I'd use to produce such timestamps)