You can say the declarations are purely for use by the compiler all you want, but in practice header files are incredibly useful since *they contain the declarations*. Otherwise, you have to hunt for the implementation and look up its parameters (which might not even be available, especially when li...

I'm really glad that this competition is growing traction! Should I do a special edition "FINAL" issue of QB Express to commemorate it? Would anyone be interested in writing something? Also, I would like to contribute an additional $100 into the winner's pot. (PayPal, Lachie?) I won't hav...

BasicCoder2: I think you overthink things just a bit and maybe let that get in the way of actually doing things. Don't let any inhibitions or doubt stop you. I believe in you. So what if all you code is Tetris? At least you will have made something. At least it will have been your Tetris. Maybe a T...

I guess my hope was you would come up with something Lachie and obviously just exclude yourself from the prizes the same way I am. Also, you won't get to see my WIP. Stop trying to look. Pervert.

But if I'm mistaken, and that is allowed, I'll be happy to do a very expansive pascal comparison too :-) Personally, I'd vote in favor of that. For two reasons. 1) Pascal is a cool language, although not as popular as JavaScript. I'm sure some people would benefit. It might show us where certain fe...

Okay, well thank you for sharing your opinion MrSwiss. Worth noting that Lachie's been contributing to the QBASIC/FreeBASIC community since like the early 2000's. He's one of the most respected game devs here and QBASIC has a long history of game development. You might not know this though having ju...

IMHO this discussion is a bit pointless, especially when considering that this is a FreeBasic forum, because this topic could be also discussed for so many other modern programming languages with probably similar results. A bit pointless, you say? I'd say that this entire thread is an exercise in p...

I'm just going to reply to people who give actual feedback on the question / contents of the thread. If you think a JavaScript vs FreeBASIC side-by-side series would be useful, let me know. If not, let me know.

Having a thread be called pointless is a bit frustrating. In my mind it was very clear what I'm asking.

Read the title of the thread. That is all.

paul doe: Happy to reply, but can you please calm down?

I do think that motivating people to move away from FB to other programming languages doesn't really align with FreeBasic's goals. That's a nice way of describing the problem ;-) Is there any JavaScript forum with a side-by-side series on FreeBasic? Rhetoric question, of course. What I certainly wo...

"chokes on his coffee". Oh, wait, you mean relative to old interpreted javascript ? marcov, I qualified what I mean by performance, but I can more. I mean relative to any interpreted language and with performance within the 3x - 5x range range of Java and C++. See: https://benchmarksgame-...

JavaScript had been on my mind before your initial post .. i would enjoy a 'comparison' of sorts :-) If you google "writing games with Javascript" you can make your own comparison, perhaps by writing a FreeBASIC version of the demo games. This is definitely an option. Do you have any link...

Some people are finding my latest JS thread irrelevant. That was not my intent, and the same spirit that carried me here to FreeBASIC (over 15 years ago) lives on in the work I do now with JavaScript. However, I do understand that it's technically a violation of this forum to run promotions / have t...

IMHO this discussion is a bit pointless, especially when considering that this is a FreeBasic forum, because this topic could be also discussed for so many other modern programming languages with probably similar results. Summa summarum: Yes, try JS! but also try other programming languages! A few ...