gobasic VS deadfrog-lib

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.

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.

I wrote a simple BASIC too, for nothing more than a sense of nostalgia:

https://github.com/skx/gobasic

I think the Xlib dependency would prevent compilation as an αpε. I put some effort into doing X11 from scratch (without Xlib or Xcb) to make this possible. Or at least, my aim was to be able to build with musl libc and generate a single executable that would run on many different Linuxes.

https://github.com/abainbridge/deadfrog-lib/blob/master/src/.... It is janky though.

Having a bitmap in normal system memory that we can write to the window or screen is easy though and should be more widely supported. Once you've got that you can write pixels, lines, rectangles, mandlebrots etc very easily and building up to a GUI toolkit is also quite easy and fun. This mechanism is fast enough for pretty much everything other than games on modern hardware.

I consider GPU acceleration a form of premature optimization - it adds complexity unnecessarily in many cases.

Here's my library for doing that on Windows and X11. https://github.com/abainbridge/deadfrog-lib