I'm surprised you didn't recommend Fig BASIC. 
I also never understood why you jumped aboard the S.S. Python when the rest of us were having a grand ol' time on Galleon's Island. SDL or OpenGL? Hint: Always go with the one with the bigger coconuts.
I really thought C/C++ would last a long time, recalling the Tootsie Roll jingle, but alas, some bullshit started a couple of years back about the language having security flaws in it and the 'industry' became weary of C programs. Also, Rob, if he could have had a do-over, would have translated QB64 to JavaScript. We would have had the ability, back then and now, to make Android apps if that actually happened. Since I fiddle with web based stuff occasionally, I have used JavaScript and except for the dame brackets up the ASCII I can't say that I hate it as much as I hate Python, C, Free(not really)BASIC, or any of the other non-English speaking programming languages.
You know personally, after all these years, I still haven't figured out why in the hell I like coding so much. I mean if it were drawing cartoons, I'd much rather tell an AI to make Sam, Bugs, and have Sam put 100 rounds in Bug's ASCII while running across the Prairie on a hot sunny day. The old school method of drawing 500 flip pages to accomplish this, by hand, would not appeal to me. Also, I'd like the finished product, in this case the cartoon, better than the experience of producing it. I'm just the exact opposite when it comes to coding, and I don't have a dang clue as to why. So in some respects, AI is poised to suck the fun out of it for the old me, and make it so I have to reinvent the old me when I'm an even older me. Well I guess we'll have to wait 6 or so years to see how that pans out. That's all folks. I have to make some overseas calls on my coconut phone while the rates are still low.
Pete
I also never understood why you jumped aboard the S.S. Python when the rest of us were having a grand ol' time on Galleon's Island. SDL or OpenGL? Hint: Always go with the one with the bigger coconuts.
I really thought C/C++ would last a long time, recalling the Tootsie Roll jingle, but alas, some bullshit started a couple of years back about the language having security flaws in it and the 'industry' became weary of C programs. Also, Rob, if he could have had a do-over, would have translated QB64 to JavaScript. We would have had the ability, back then and now, to make Android apps if that actually happened. Since I fiddle with web based stuff occasionally, I have used JavaScript and except for the dame brackets up the ASCII I can't say that I hate it as much as I hate Python, C, Free(not really)BASIC, or any of the other non-English speaking programming languages.
You know personally, after all these years, I still haven't figured out why in the hell I like coding so much. I mean if it were drawing cartoons, I'd much rather tell an AI to make Sam, Bugs, and have Sam put 100 rounds in Bug's ASCII while running across the Prairie on a hot sunny day. The old school method of drawing 500 flip pages to accomplish this, by hand, would not appeal to me. Also, I'd like the finished product, in this case the cartoon, better than the experience of producing it. I'm just the exact opposite when it comes to coding, and I don't have a dang clue as to why. So in some respects, AI is poised to suck the fun out of it for the old me, and make it so I have to reinvent the old me when I'm an even older me. Well I guess we'll have to wait 6 or so years to see how that pans out. That's all folks. I have to make some overseas calls on my coconut phone while the rates are still low.
Pete