Re:SpiderBasic
by anonzzzies on Saturday December 07, 2024 @08:09AM
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That's true, but still almost no one wants to pay for that pleasure. People rather suffer day after day to save 50 bucks. Not saying purebasic is solid as I have never used it, but there are definitely times when I long back to the times when I could pay a few 100$ and get something that was batteries included and vetted without the breaking churn of people just dumping libraries online and hoping for the best.
Please note that there are free versions, with code size as a limitation. One can test if it is worth it, maybe upgrade if the need arises for bigger projects:
Yes, which is why the rest of my sentence is important. I said, “I haven’t found a need to use a proprietary language.” I didn’t claim that one will never be needed by anyone. :-)
You could use Godot (has a nice set of GUI widgets in addition to the game-specific stuff) or Lazarus (Free Pascal IDE) for instance. I did not use Lazarus much, but Free Pascal as a compiler and the language is nice and stable and supports a long list of platforms, generating native code (including cross-compiling between many different pairs of platforms).
> In today's era
In today's era it's still priceless to have a tool that * compiles to a native machine code executable; * is lean and fast - you can get results quickly and from a light efficient interface; * does pretty much anything (and in case you are missing anything in the native libraries, you can interface with external C libraries)...
And (subjectively) can be a real pleasure to use.