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Does a "modern version" of SmileBASIC exist?

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MidnightCreated:
~As many users here to my knowledge are multilingual in terms of programming languages, I imagine that this isn't an awful place to post the question I want to ask.~ What do you think is the most similar programming language to SmileBASIC available on Windows?

There are two language that come to mind: Lua and Python. For Lua there is a 2d engine called Löve. I tried to use it but I made some small projects that I never published. If you want to see a game made with that engine, then search mari0 (It's a crossover between mario and portal.) I haven't use Python for game programming but it has a similar syntax to smilebasic.

There are two language that come to mind: Lua and Python. For Lua there is a 2d engine called Löve. I tried to use it but I made some small projects that I never published. If you want to see a game made with that engine, then search mari0 (It's a crossover between mario and portal.) I haven't use Python for game programming but it has a similar syntax to smilebasic.
I actually program in Löve sometimes. Haha. I didn't think of it as much like SmileBASIC. In retrospect, I suppose it is similar in many ways. I don't know much about Python. However, I do enjoy making jokes about people who use it "speaking snake" since I think a python is a type of snake. I was looking, I suppose, for another BASIC dialect (or something with nearly identical syntax, such as Pico-8's code) with a similar structure to that of SmileBASIC, that is built for use on Windows.

"Modern" is a poor choice of words here. SmileBASIC itself is a very modernized and luxurious revival following the BASIC family. What you're really looking for is made clear later: The "most similar programming language to SmileBASIC available on Windows" The answer, if I dare to give one, may very well be QBasic, which shares many syntactic and vocabulary features with SmileBASIC.

"Modern" is a poor choice of words here. SmileBASIC itself is a very modernized and luxurious revival following the BASIC family. What you're really looking for is made clear later: The "most similar programming language to SmileBASIC available on Windows" The answer, if I dare to give one, may very well be QBasic, which shares many syntactic and vocabulary features with SmileBASIC.
Ah. I see what you said. Apologies for not specifying this; I was looking for something built for Windows, as in not requiring emulation of any sort as is the case with QBasic. However, I am interested in this.

I was looking for something built for Windows, as in not requiring emulation of any sort as is the case with QBasic. However, I am interested in this.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=qbasic+modern
Spoilerhttp://www.qb64.net/

I used to made game with QBasic and QB4.5 long ago. Then I discovered FreeBasic and made a few games with it. http://www.freebasic.net/ FreeBASIC is a free/open source (GPL), BASIC compiler for Microsoft Windows, DOS and Linux. It is just a compiler, and there are couple of IDEs. It has QB language option that can compile most of QBasic programs. I still use FreeBasic sometimes to test some ideas quick. (I actually made wave converter(for nyancat wav) with FreeBasic first then ported on C#.) http://www.qb64.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page There is QB64 and it comes with IDE that's look just like QBASIC. But I didn't make any games with it.

Ironically, I suppose, yesterday before seeing either of your posts, I discovered QB64 and downloaded it.