blade vs fastbasic

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blade		fastbasic
	Project
18	Mentions	3
160	Stars	129
3.1%	Growth	-
8.7	Activity	6.7
2 months ago	Latest Commit	5 days ago
C	Language	C
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 only

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
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.

blade

Posts with mentions or reviews of blade. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-07-29.

Blade Programming Language v0.0.73 Released
1 project | /r/azpaanevovpani | 30 Jul 2022

1 project | /r/sauvelavniteht | 30 Jul 2022

1 project | /r/cazadhafkaviim | 30 Jul 2022

1 project | /r/kuijeonupoecva | 30 Jul 2022

1 project | /r/oniseejbajgeib | 30 Jul 2022

2 projects | /r/programming | 29 Jul 2022

1 project | /r/coding | 29 Jul 2022

1 project | /r/coding | 29 Jul 2022
Blade Programming Language v0.0.73
1 project | /r/ProgrammingLanguages | 29 Jul 2022

Links: https://github.com/blade-lang/blade https://bladelang.com
I mean where the f**k should I real even start
1 project | /r/opensource | 30 Nov 2021

Start with the github instead of the website. https://github.com/blade-lang/blade

fastbasic

Posts with mentions or reviews of fastbasic. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-05.

Looking for advice on setting up a programming environment for Atari 8bit
1 project | /r/atari8bit | 12 Feb 2023

I'm going to throw FastBasic out there. You can program on the Atari itself or use the cross compiler. It kind of combines everything from Basic and Action! into a modern language that is still being developed.
-🎄- 2022 Day 6 Solutions -🎄-
223 projects | /r/adventofcode | 5 Dec 2022

Atari FastBasic
I want to get into 8 bit computing. Is commodore 64 the best option?
1 project | /r/retrobattlestations | 28 Sep 2021

The Atari has a new updated Basic, FastBasic, which gives you speed with the ease of Basic.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing blade and fastbasic you can also consider the following projects:

gravity - Gravity Programming Language

aqb - A BASIC Compiler and IDE for Amiga Computers

pocketlang - A lightweight, fast embeddable scripting language.

stupidc - Stupid programming language that vaguely resembles C and compiles directly to 6502 assembly

Gwion - :musical_note: strongly-timed musical programming language

Mad-Pascal - Mad Pascal Compiler for 6502 (Atari XE/XL, C64, C4Plus, Neo6502)

Gwion - :musical_note: strongly-timed musical programming language [Moved to: https://github.com/Gwion/Gwion]

quickjs - Public repository of the QuickJS Javascript Engine.

transfolio - File transfer program for Atari Portfolio and Linux/Windows machines (with centronics port) and RaspberryPi (via gpio). Created by Klaus Peichl.

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

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