bwbasic
The Bywater BASIC Interpreter (bwBASIC) implements a large superset of the ANSI Standard for Minimal BASIC (X3.60-1978) and a significant subset of the ANSI Standard for Full BASIC (X3.113-1987) in C. (by nerun)
gobasic
A BASIC interpreter written in golang. (by skx)
| bwbasic | gobasic | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4 | |
| 14 | 319 | |
| - | - | |
| 10.0 | 4.2 | |
| over 1 year ago | 3 months ago | |
| BASIC | Go | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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bwbasic
Posts with mentions or reviews of bwbasic.
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gobasic
Posts with mentions or reviews of gobasic.
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and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-10.
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TwinBASIC is a modern BASIC compiler
There are a bunch of BASIC interpreters out there, my own isn't so complex or thorough, but I definitely had fun writing it:
https://github.com/skx/gobasic/
My own vision was to reproduce something akin to the ZX Spectrum, rather than the more advanced Microsoft BASIC.
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EndBASIC
Unusable might be a bit harsh, but I have to say that when I wrote my own BASIC interpreter last year I deliberately concentrated on the line-numbers and facilities of the ZX Spectrum I remembered:
https://github.com/skx/gobasic
Being standalone it doesn't have the graphic support or the interactivity, but it was still a fun project to work upon.
- Commodore Basic as a Scripting Language for Unix and Windows – Now Open Source
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Why am I wasting time on EndBASIC?
I wrote a simple BASIC too, for nothing more than a sense of nostalgia:
https://github.com/skx/gobasic
What are some alternatives?
When comparing bwbasic and gobasic you can also consider the following projects:
endbasic - BASIC environment with a REPL, a web interface, a graphical console, and RPi support written in Rust
yaegi - Yaegi is Another Elegant Go Interpreter
array - Simple array language written in kotlin