RetroBASIC vs UEFI_Basic

RetroBASIC

BASIC interpreter in lex/yacc/c (by maurymarkowitz)

interpreters basic-programming-language

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UEFI_Basic

A BASIC programming language interpreter for UEFI (by MutationThreads)

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RetroBASIC		UEFI_Basic
	Project
2	Mentions	1
21	Stars	20
-	Growth	-
8.9	Activity	0.0
5 days ago	Latest Commit	over 2 years ago
C	Language	C
GNU General Public License v3.0 only	License	BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License

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RetroBASIC

Posts with mentions or reviews of RetroBASIC. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-09-01.

Make a new project and reset it's Git
1 project | /r/Xcode | 10 Mar 2023

I have a (mostly archived) project that implements BASIC. Today I got the dumb idea to use the underlying machinery to make a FOCAL) interpreter. So I duplicated the original folder and in I went.
Porting my very simple C code from Unixen/macOS to Windows
3 projects | /r/C_Programming | 1 Sep 2022

I have a very simple C console-based program based on flex/bison/c. It uses only standard libraries and has no external dependencies. It compiles on macOS using Xcode or a simple makefile, and appears to work fine on Linux using the same makefile.

UEFI_Basic

Posts with mentions or reviews of UEFI_Basic. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-01-06.

Raspberry Pi Boot to Basic
7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Jan 2022

Did a search to see if it has been done. Yes, there is an EFI Basic of sorts:
UEFI Basic
https://github.com/LHerrmeyer/UEFI_Basic

What are some alternatives?

When comparing RetroBASIC and UEFI_Basic you can also consider the following projects:

getopt - POSIX getopt() as a portable header library

QB64pe - The QB64 Phoenix Edition Repository

Freeze-OS - An Operating System that runs on top of an interpreter.

AMOS-Professional-Official - The official source code of AMOS Professional on the Amiga

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

MatrixBrandy - Matrix Brandy BASIC VI for Linux, Windows, MacOSX

EfiFs - EFI FileSystem drivers

rpi-basic - RaspberryPi BASIC; a bare-metal OS for the RaspberryPi

SpecBAS - An enhanced Sinclair BASIC interpreter for modern PCs

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

SmallBASIC - SmallBASIC is a fast and easy to learn BASIC language interpreter ideal for everyday calculations, scripts and prototypes. SmallBASIC includes trigonometric, matrices and algebra functions, a built in IDE, a powerful string library, system, sound, and graphic commands along with structured programming syntax

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