PureBasic and the ‘systems language’ club
Posted: Fri Dec 05, 2025 11:55 pm
Hi everyone,
At the university where I teach, we use Brightspace D2L as our LMS(Learning Management System). Whenever I build interactive content (HTML/CSS/JS, SpiderBasic, etc.), I eventually need to package it as a SCORM module before uploading it.
Just for fun, I asked a genAI chatbot if it knew of any SCORM packagers that were:
• standalone GUI desktop apps
• cross-platform (macOS + Windows)
• tiny (around 3–6 MB)
• no runtimes required
It couldn’t name a single one. But it did say that only a few languages could even *make* something like that nowadays — C, C++, Rust, and PureBasic. That made me smile. PB hanging out with the systems-programming crowd.
And honestly, PB is the only one of those that lets me build a small, native GUI app without dragging in a big toolkit or runtime. Makes me even happier that I picked PureBasic for my own little SCORM packager project.
Cheers!
At the university where I teach, we use Brightspace D2L as our LMS(Learning Management System). Whenever I build interactive content (HTML/CSS/JS, SpiderBasic, etc.), I eventually need to package it as a SCORM module before uploading it.
Just for fun, I asked a genAI chatbot if it knew of any SCORM packagers that were:
• standalone GUI desktop apps
• cross-platform (macOS + Windows)
• tiny (around 3–6 MB)
• no runtimes required
It couldn’t name a single one. But it did say that only a few languages could even *make* something like that nowadays — C, C++, Rust, and PureBasic. That made me smile. PB hanging out with the systems-programming crowd.
And honestly, PB is the only one of those that lets me build a small, native GUI app without dragging in a big toolkit or runtime. Makes me even happier that I picked PureBasic for my own little SCORM packager project.
Cheers!
