Mike Shah's PureBasic - First Impression

[Fred]

We're working on it

[Joubarbe]

What I've learned from this video is that Fred is named Fred Couille on YouTube.

[Fred]

[chi]

Yes, someone could mention the C backend in the wiki, [...]

[Done] for English and French page.

"Since version 6.00 (June 2022), in addition to compilation using ASM, PureBasic offers compilation with a C backend. This enables access to new platforms (e.g. Raspberry) and should make it easier to add new libraries in the future. "

Feel free to do it for others languages pages and/or suggest better text

Thank you, Marc56us

We're working on it

Nice, looking forward to it

[Fred]

It's done ! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mh4RPeJgk_E

[idle]

It's done ! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mh4RPeJgk_E

Great to have rhe follow up.

[PBJim]

I didn't catch what Fred said at 3:14, "PureBasic which is mostly based on ______" ?

[Kiffi]

It's done ! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mh4RPeJgk_E

Thanks a lot!

[Marc56us]

I didn't catch what Fred said at 3:14, "PureBasic which is mostly based on ______" ?

Blitz Basic (I think ?)

[Quin]

OMG, this is awesome. Thanks Fred and Mike!

[Fred]

I didn't catch what Fred said at 3:14, "PureBasic which is mostly based on ______" ?

Yes, it's BlitzBasic

[Quin]

It's so interesting to finally hear Fred's voice after all these years, I guess to me as a blind person it's like seeing a picture for sighted people. My voice profile was pretty close honestly, but I had his accent way wrong. Thanks again for doing this Fred, it's been such a great year for interviews on the PB side so far

[Fred]

Next one in 10 years

[Quin]

Next one in 10 years

By then, PB will be running on 9 more platforms at this rate

[skywalk]

Thanks for the interview Fred

I had some old questions triggered by the interview.
1. With PB Variable.type syntax, is there hesitance to expand the data types?
Specifically, unsigned integer, unsigned quad.
Would you allow 2 char types?
MyInt.ui or MyQuad.uq
Or pick from the available 26 letters? j is i+1 and r is next from q?
MyusInt.j or MyusQuad.r

2. While I admire the effort to support gui's in each OS, was there any consideration to choosing 1 for all OS's?
Does GTK work for all OS?

3. With the push for webview gui's, do you see SpiderBasic competing with PureBasic?