I wonder what the #Linux #IDE situation is for #FreeBASIC these days...

What is your preferred dialect of #BASIC, modern or otherwise? I like what #FreeBASIC is upto. It seems fairly popular from a user base standpoint but it seems to be lean on developers.

#programming #retrocomputing

On my Linux box I use #geany when I work on #cobol or #rust code. On my one Windows machine I rarely write utilities for work (they gave me a #tablet as I am not a DEV). That, and they don't allow support to get any compilers for their "laptops". Doing work on personal device in #freebasic wishing I had geany when I decided to check out their site. They DO have Win version! Installed and happy camper creating 'projects' for my tools to compile & test. Now to put COBOL/RUST on it too.

Time for a break for two days. No chance of DEV fixing our problem program with abending on missing DB records. Got DBAs to dump record in flat file and wrote a program (gasp, #freebasic) to walk through the 2 files and generate a diff file based on fields in both. Will upload & import next week. Took about 4 hours work and ripped through 8 million records in under 1 minute. I do support, but I was a DEV years earlier so don't piss me off.

@SinclairSpeccy There are so many dialects. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_BASIC_dialects And you do have modern ones, like #FreeBASIC and #QB64 that are actively maintained. It’s an incredible world that honestly has grown more in recent years with the rise of #RetroComputing.