i quite surpirsed...

[Dreglor]

i very surprised at the knowlege of pb is,
becasue it better the c++ in some ways (faster and smaller because it complies straight to asm)
yet it is only 500 known users
but i not sure how long pb been up publicly (year?)
still i don't see any ad of any kind nor people talking about it

is it the name that makes every one think "well it's basic so i won't get far in it and it will have many limitations to it"

[Inner]

I don't think 500 is the limit of the user base, there will be some without internet that have it, and others still that don't sign onto the forums although I can't think why not, perhaps they don't have anything of value to add, or they have better things to do like coding..

[PB]

> only 500 known users

Well, there may be only 500 (or so) registered users here, but if you take
a look at http://tinyurl.com/mitk you'll see that it's had 8866 downloads to
date, with a rating of "popular" -- so it's entirely possible that at least half
of those downloads are satisfied users of the product.

> i don't see any ad of any kind nor people talking about it

So what? It's the programming world's best-kept secret. Let the other
people have their bloated Visual Basics with required runtimes and DLL
hell.

[Max.]

i don't see any ad of any kind nor people talking about it

I got aware of PB because of an ad; I think when browsing sourceforge.net

[Berikco]

i don't see any ad of any kind nor people talking about it

I got aware of PB because of an ad; I think when browsing sourceforge.net

i found out about PureBasic existance on the GFA Basic mailing list

[dmoc]

I got here thinking it was a Power Basic site. Luckily I had not bought Power Basic