I was pretty heavy into the QBasic community in the 2000s, and move into the FreeBASIC community once it was stable.
I'd highly recommend FreeBASIC, especially if you enjoy C-style programming. Lots of good libraries and good C library support (give or take writing the headers by hand or translating)
I tried QB64, but I'd only recommend that if you want nostalgia. By default, it gives that classic QBasic IDE interface, and feels very self contained.
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I was pretty heavy into the QBasic community in the 2000s, and move into the FreeBASIC community once it was stable.
I'd highly recommend FreeBASIC, especially if you enjoy C-style programming. Lots of good libraries and good C library support (give or take writing the headers by hand or translating)
I tried QB64, but I'd only recommend that if you want nostalgia. By default, it gives that classic QBasic IDE interface, and feels very self contained.
+1 for FreeBASIC, very underrated language with many expected modern trimmings.