I kind of like the uppercase keywords of older programming languages, it makes the non-code parts standout more, probably even more important before syntax highlighting became common

Nice, this might be good for my 9 year old.

As a Python dev, there are a million things I can show her in Python and that huge amount of choice is an issue in itself sometimes.

This is neat! I know it's not really the point but I would like to see some shallow benchmarks, I'm curious what perf (if any) is lost building like this.

My very first apps were written in LibertyBASIC, almost 30 years ago. I learned how to pirate things because the borland compiler required to share my creations with my friends was $299, which was a lot of money back then.

Nice. A BASIC for game development takes me back to AMOS on the Commodore Amiga.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMOS_(programming_language)

And the ST equivalent, STOS:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STOS_BASIC

There's a modernised build:

https://atariscne.org/news/index.php/stos-basic-v5-5-alpha-t...

And a modern descendant, AOZ Studio:

https://www.aoz.studio/

Ditto the ST equivalent STOS. Amiga owning friends preferred Blitz BASIC though. Unfortunately, due to one Dijkstra quote about it, people tend to be quite snobbish about BASIC.

Oh wow, I loved AMOS - it is what got me seriously into programming in the first place.

This reminds me immensely of DARK Basic built by The Game Creators. It was how I got my start into programming back in the day.