Thin-FreeBasic

[JRS]

It looks like Eros has finally abandoned PowerBasic and porting his interpreter to FreeBasic. I wonder if there is going to be a Linux version of ThinBasic?

[Aurel]

To FreeBasic...hmmm
and why not to Oxygen Basic ?
I never liked very much Free Basic so i will stay with Oxygen Basic.   

[Charles Pegge]

Self-compiling thinBasic would be very cool, and technically feasible with o2 since the string system and syntax are very similar. 

[JRS]

I'm confused as well seeing all the time you spent with Eros on O2 extensions. Must be the Linux attraction or Jose Roca.

[Aurel]

I see from where you dig it:

Personally ... I started to love FreeBASIC more and more during the last months.
Especially when I discovered that JoseRoca (one of my programmer idol) started to use FreeBASIC for his WinFBX project: https://github.com/JoseRoca/WinFBX

Thinking to a strategy for going out from using Power Basic as main compiler used to develop ThinBASIC, I've come to the conclusion that FreeBASIC is the best choice:
syntax not far from Power Basic so source porting will not be a nightmare but just a matter of time
both 32/64 bits
rich set of functions
nice community that recently seems revamped
and other reasons