Mike Shah's PureBasic - First Impression

[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?

[Fred]

Hi skywalk ! Here is some quick answers:

1. we will stick with one letter type

2. Never, native application is what PB does. GTK has a lot of issue by himself on Windows/OSX (and also on Linux) so it's not a good choice.

3. No, why should it ? Webview is just another way to do UI for native desktop apps, while SpiderBasic is meant for mobile/web

[Olli]

By a mistake, I typed "purebasic" on yt instead of google, and I discovered this long sequence.

My first impression is the accent of Fred. I had the chance to meet a english friend in Paris which was very strong about my accent. I got 2 or 3 of his natural accent, what it changes totally the communication. What it is not without a specific problem, knowing inventing new words. And be aware that a new (false) word has been pronounced, in the last sentence !

So, if an english person could get Fred, during a week, in England, alone (very important), to offer him the virus of the english accent (which is not easy), this could be a good affair !


My second impression is the format of the movie. We expect (scrolling or not) screenshoots and (slow motion or not) short clips, illustrating the answers, inside a ten-minutes movie. But nope.


My last (and main) impression is a big thank to Fred and Mike Shah (I did not know before) to make this movie, because, sure, behind the accent and the movie format, there are human persons. And a lot of details which have been given, searching only what it is real.

So, thank you for this share.

[threedslider]

Good interview and thanks for sharing in YT

[Olli]

Did anybody know this pure basic ad ?

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/y-gYSHHEdfU

[x] short
[x] human
[x] illustrated
[x] has forgot a zero digit on the price

This makes work on the way ! Mike is managing so real !