![]() You could see the happiness, mutual respect and general camaraderie and friendship in their eyes and faces. ![]() One of the most heart warming things I have seen in any programming community, was long ago, when Fred, Freak and Bericko (sp?) (who used to maintain the GUI editor) had a get together in person and shared some pictures. Yes, the community has changed over the years as other languages have taken off and many may move on. ![]() And in general, we have some of the most helpful and knowledgeable folks on the forum. PureBasic still exists largely because its developers care about the product and its users. We have two strong developers of the language and Andre kicks some serious butt when it comes to the documentation. He kept his promise of free updates to his users.Īny comments I make on Fred, apply equally to Freak. When PB became "not as profitable", Fred could have done what many other indie BASIC developers did and move to a paid model or make new features a paid add on. The old saying in the 90s, in the heyday of Shareware, was an upgrade is just an update released when you needed the money. PB seems too good to be true, when compared to the competition, doesn't it? PB is the last indie BASIC standing, and Fred is the only developer of an indie language who has a proven track record of keeping his promises to his userbase (which speaks volumes as to why it is the last indie BASIC standing). So the blog made me curious as to what might coming.Ĭuriosity is generally only bad for cats. ![]() Other commercial products don't appear to have had updates or fixes in a few years. As I mentioned pure basic appears to be the only basic compiler getting updates and fixes. ![]()
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