Could you add support for OxygenBasic?

[ghost]

It's a cool BASIC dialect, but it's Windows-only, unlike FreeBASIC or QB64. Getting support for it is more involved. The number of keywords is on par with, or even higher than, FreeBASIC/QB64, and they are scattered throughout the CHM help file. The syntax is blended with C even more than FreeBASIC. You have to actually download the OxygenBasic distribution and inspect the CHM help file and its IDE. There is also a third-party code editor for it called AurelEdit, which you can find here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/aureledit-ide/

By the way, I have let the SmallBASIC community know about this very cool code editor: smallbasic/SmallBASIC#261

[bejolly407]

OxygenBasic has its own niche community. I’m not against the idea of adding basic syntax highlighting so that OxygenBasic doesn’t look like plain text when opened in ecode. But should you do this yourself? You can export the rules for FreeBASIC to JSON and customize them for OxygenBasic. This is what people have always done in the BASIC world. There are simply too many dialects to add support for all of them.

[bejolly407]

Based on what you posted on the SmallBASIC Discussions page, it seems you are planning to leave GitHub. I just want to let you know that GitHub is basically a mailing list, and you can reply to threads using email. I don’t know how you will leave GitHub, but there’s no need to delete your account and become another ghost.

[ghost]

Thank you for your kindness, but I have my own plans. I will surely request to close my GitHub account, but not today. I'm still waiting for Joe to chime in and tell me how to properly use the raylib bindings on SmallBASIC. Microsoft is both evil and incompetent as hell. What’s the point of having your AI scan all GitHub repositories if it still generates broken SmallBASIC programs? The SmallBASIC project and its plugins are all on GitHub! What Copilot does is simply cobble together pieces from different BASIC dialects (mostly QuickBASIC), and the generated code is invalid. Grok, on the other hand, can generate working programs without any modifications!

[SpartanJ]

Sorry but I don't think I'm going to support this variation, compiler source is not available (or at least I cannot find it), documentation is really bad, there is almost no information about the language anywhere. I don't mind if it's niche but at least I need to have good amount of information and easy access to that information, otherwise it would take me much more time than the one I'm willing to dedicate to something like this.

[bejolly407]

You are absolutely right in this case, @SpartanJ. OxygenBasic is a business of a few people (I mean real business, everyone please take notice of the word IT-Consultant):

https://forum.it-berater.org/

(This is the official support channel for OxygenBasic).

It has its own niche, its own community and toolings.