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Between work, wife and kids, I'm amazed you can find time for PB and SB.

Yup ! Thanks a lot for interview

It is very nice to know more of you Fred, as real life it is needed to advance something between job and personnal

@Fred : YOU can monetize in Opensource, of course it si up to you on what you want whatever

In Opensource is a thing very high hope for us, already Purebasic IDE is an example, to benefit from money is the subscription (recomanded!) it is better model for you and your team to get more developpers

I am also a supporter to PB hardcore

Help Fred and team if they want more money and support the code if there is possible to bright it

And in parenthesis I would like in long time to make a compiller for Basic with my C++ But it is needed to kwow everything when you are beginner

Maybe one day if the time permit me to do it as well

Happy coding !

Oh... I wished for a actual photo...
Fred with a duck face or doing a dab.

But nice interview.

Fred wrote: Fri Feb 07, 2025 10:36 amI’m married since 10 years, got 2 boys which are now 8 and 5

Wow, I remember reading the interview when it came out when you got married, and now it's 10 years since then, with two kids? Time is flying.

Thanks to your wife and 2 childrens for giving you enough free time for your passion.
I'm very impressed that you can continue to work on big projects like C Backend, ucrt,... between work and family life.

Thanks for the interview, It's great to get to know you a little better

Quin: Is there any chance of SpiderBasic/PureBasic ever compiling to WebAssembly?

No, I don’t think so.

@Fred
May I ask why? Emscripten is designed to be a drop in replacement for gcc that compiles C to WebAssembly...

A high level view of the Emscripten toolchain is given below [see link above]. The main tool is the Emscripten Compiler Frontend (emcc). This is a drop-in replacement for a standard compiler like gcc or clang.

Python, Ruby and Go have added/are adding wasm support.
Anaconda have the Pyscript project where they have compiled both Python and MicroPython with Emscripten and you can run either in any modern browser.

Wasm appears to be gaining momentum and it seems to me PB is in a good position to join the party.

Great interview, Fred!

Cyllceaux wrote: Sat Feb 08, 2025 7:57 am Oh... I wished for a actual photo...
Fred with a duck face or doing a dab.

But nice interview.

Here ancient for photo from him : http://www.purearea.net/pb/english/interview.htm You can see him but yeah maybe an actual photo will help us to see Fred

fred wrote:About the new features, I would like to add an HID/USB lib to PB.

again time to spend some bucks..

I also like the statement that there will be no object-oriented language.
The possibilities to work with objects are completely sufficient. In general, much less is developed on new object-oriented languages.

mk-soft wrote: Sun Feb 09, 2025 12:22 pmI also like the statement that there will be no object-oriented language.

Same. And Fred made this very clear back in 2013 -> https://www.purebasic.fr/english/viewto ... 70#p403070

mk-soft wrote: Sun Feb 09, 2025 12:22 pm I also like the statement that there will be no object-oriented language.
The possibilities to work with objects are completely sufficient. In general, much less is developed on new object-oriented languages.

I fully agree, although I would really love to see something like I talked about in the interview implemented, i.e. define Procedures directly on structures instead of needing to declare a VTable and manage the *This pointer yourself. It's not a massive deal and PB's current abilities work more than well enough, but it would be some very welcome syntax sugar. Polymorfism, inheritance etc are unnecessary and complicated, but being able to attach a procedure directly to a chunk of data/state like this is super useful

Rings wrote: Sun Feb 09, 2025 11:37 am

fred wrote:About the new features, I would like to add an HID/USB lib to PB.

again time to spend some bucks..

Yes, this is very good news.
I hope that USB support will appear soon.

mk-soft wrote: Sun Feb 09, 2025 12:22 pm I also like the statement that there will be no object-oriented language.

Some tasks are easier to implement using OOP. It would be great if there were procedures in the structures.
I proposed a model very similar to the modules, but at the same time, speaking in OOP language, creating instances of modules and not static modules. https://www.purebasic.fr/english/viewto ... 95#p454795

What is the point of the 1000th OOP discussion here?