PyBasic vs SpecBAS

PyBasic

Simple interactive BASIC interpreter written in Python (by richpl)

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SpecBAS

An enhanced Sinclair BASIC interpreter for modern PCs (by ZXDunny)

Basic basic-programming-language sinclair-zx-spectrum

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PyBasic		SpecBAS
	Project
3	Mentions	4
154	Stars	144
-	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	7.2
about 2 years ago	Latest Commit	19 days ago
Python	Language	Pascal
GNU General Public License v3.0 only	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 only

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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

PyBasic

Posts with mentions or reviews of PyBasic. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-10-05.

An old school BASIC interpreter
2 projects | /r/retrocomputing | 5 Oct 2021
BASIC interpreter written in Python
1 project | /r/retroprogramming | 2 Oct 2021

The repository also contains ports of some classic 70s BASIC games, including Star Trek and a text adventure, as well as the first chatbot, PyBASICELIZA.
Python based BASIC interpreter
1 project | /r/retrocomputing | 18 Mar 2021

SpecBAS

Posts with mentions or reviews of SpecBAS. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-05-09.

New to BASIC
1 project | /r/Basic | 2 Jul 2021

You could give something like SpecBAS a go: https://github.com/ZXDunny/SpecBAS
Hacker News top posts: May 9, 2021
4 projects | /r/hackerdigest | 9 May 2021

SpecBAS: An enhanced Sinclair BASIC interpreter for modern PCs\ (3 comments)
SpecBAS: An enhanced Sinclair BASIC interpreter for modern PCs
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 8 May 2021
Old School Style Basic Interpreters With Graphics
1 project | /r/Basic | 17 Feb 2021

What are some alternatives?

When comparing PyBasic and SpecBAS you can also consider the following projects:

seed7 - Source code of Seed7

crawl - Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup official repository

oregon-trail-1975 - 1975 & 1978 Oregon Trail by MECC, lightly changed to be more ANSI BASIC compatible

euporie - Jupyter notebooks in the terminal

rajiniPP - Programming language based on Iconic dialogues of Rajinikanth. 🤘🏽

x-transformers - A simple but complete full-attention transformer with a set of promising experimental features from various papers

DIVI-Interpreter - Interpreter for the language DIVI#

UEFI_Basic - A BASIC programming language interpreter for UEFI

pyastinterp - Python AST interpreter (aka tree-walking interpreter) in Python. Aka meta-circular interpreter.

mmb4l - Port of Geoff Graham's MMBasic interpreter to the Linux platform and its derivatives.

kuroko - Dialect of Python with explicit variable declaration and block scoping, with a lightweight and easy-to-embed bytecode compiler and interpreter.

tmbasic - TMBASIC programming language