07-18-2022, 02:29 PM
(07-17-2022, 10:51 AM)TempodiBasic Wrote: " I have been meaning to check out FreeBASIC, and finally started reading about it, and it's kind of complicated to set up & install.
How has your experience been using it?
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? Is so difficult to use FreeBasic?
I had downloaded it some years ago, but I had no so many opportunities to use it because I had been not able to configure it in QB mode.
The extensions are so many, but I dunno the maintenance of them is regular.
I suppose that FreeBasic has a more difficult curve of apprentiness than QB64.
Under this point of view FreeBasic is more stranger to QuickBasic than QB64 (IMHO)
It just seemed messier and more complicated to set up, being there was a separate compiler and no one dedicated editor or IDE. QB64 like the original QuickBasic and QBasic has everything built into the one editor, that's all you need to get started. No installation, configuration, or anything is required to start coding, and I appreciate that simplicity!
Eventually I'll probably get around to figuring out FreeBasic but it would go a long way just to have a step-by-step dummies guide, with concrete examples, that walks you through everything from downloading it, installing, configuring your editor, and entering / compiling / running your first program.
QB64 removes all the hurdles to getting started - simply download, unzip, and run QB64.exe! Perfection!