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by davorb 256 days ago
It would especially have been useful to see what is recommended in this day and age.
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rlawson 256 days ago
Yes, I'd really like to use a basic that is open source but cross platform and compiles to executable. I'm not sure such a thing exists tho!
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keithnz 256 days ago
in that list there is https://smallbasic.github.io/ ... but there may be better options.
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WillAdams 256 days ago
One project which is trying very hard is SmallVisualBasic:

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ModernVB...

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rlawson 256 days ago
to answer my own question - poking through this list looks like QB64 would do it but also seems they split into 2 projects - QB64 and QB64PE
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