one of the reasons qbasic was so successful was because it came preinstalled on your OS and it came with everything. input, text, graphics, sound, even "music" through the PLAY command, even a built in help catalogue detailing how it all worked
the only way to get that same experience today is to use a fantasy console
@eniko Is it possible to have usable zero values in a language with generic types?
fn f<T>() {
// what would we need to do to know the zero value for <T>?
let x: T;
...
}
iiuc, in Go, people generally try to design their types so that the zero struct is meaningfully zero-ish, but that depends on mutual cat herding by the community.
Eniko (moved ➡ gamedev.place)
Mike Samuel