Some more fun facts
if you wish to run QBJS completely offline and for it to appear like a native program you can do so by:
- downloading the QBJS project from github to your local hard drive
- if you are using chrome/chromium you can use the --app="~/qbjs-master/index.html" command-line option which will start the browser with none of the 'browsing' features or decorations so it appears just like a native app
- and while javascript browser programs may not reach the performance of native compiled C++ in some circumstances, the browser QBJS IDE is, in fact, much faster and better performing than QB64's (mainly due to the incredibly poor implementation of the multiline textbox in QB64's default IDE)
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Same can be said for smartphones/tablets, ie Android and iPhone devices: either place the QBJS master folder in your internal storage and simply upload .BAS files or use QBJS's export feature and upload the prepackaged html/javascript and run it with your device's browser with touchscreen and full screen support for a seamless app experience while also conveniently bypassing any of app store or developer mode layers
If you are indeed concerned about javascript's performance or the capability of your smartphone apps to directly access the devices hardware (ie bluetooth, camera, etc) then you are very far lost to be considering a QBasic based language/compiler
if you wish to run QBJS completely offline and for it to appear like a native program you can do so by:
- downloading the QBJS project from github to your local hard drive
- if you are using chrome/chromium you can use the --app="~/qbjs-master/index.html" command-line option which will start the browser with none of the 'browsing' features or decorations so it appears just like a native app
- and while javascript browser programs may not reach the performance of native compiled C++ in some circumstances, the browser QBJS IDE is, in fact, much faster and better performing than QB64's (mainly due to the incredibly poor implementation of the multiline textbox in QB64's default IDE)
Same can be said for smartphones/tablets, ie Android and iPhone devices: either place the QBJS master folder in your internal storage and simply upload .BAS files or use QBJS's export feature and upload the prepackaged html/javascript and run it with your device's browser with touchscreen and full screen support for a seamless app experience while also conveniently bypassing any of app store or developer mode layers
If you are indeed concerned about javascript's performance or the capability of your smartphone apps to directly access the devices hardware (ie bluetooth, camera, etc) then you are very far lost to be considering a QBasic based language/compiler