EndBASIC is an interpreter for a BASIC-like language and is inspired by Amstrad's Locomotive BASIC 1.1 and Microsoft's QuickBASIC 4.5. Like the former, EndBASIC intends to provide an interactive environment that seamlessly merges coding with immediate visual feedback. Like the latter, EndBASIC offers higher-level programming constructs and strong typing. The main idea behind EndBASIC is to provide a playground for learning the foundations of programming in a simplified environment.
EndBASIC is written in Rust. The parser and interpreter's primary goal is to be readable and easy to modify. A secondary goal is to make the core minimal, extensible, and configurable. Performance is not a goal right now, though it likely won't disappoint.
EndBASIC is free software under the Apache 2.0 License.
endbasic-std provides the language standard library, which is composed of
various commands and functions. Each of these can be exposed to the
interpreter individually.
EndBASIC's standard library is inspired by other BASIC interpreters but does not intend to be fully compatible with them. The library currently contains:
CLS, COLOR, INPUT, LOCATE, PRINT.CLEAR, EXIT, HELP.DTOI, ITOD, RANDOMIZE, RND.DEL, DIR, EDIT, LOAD, NEW, RUN, SAVE.LEFT, LEN, LTRIM, MID, RIGHT, RTRIM.Some highlights about the EndBASIC implementation are:
Minimalist library. The standard library provides the logic for all built-in commands, but each command can be individually installed into the parser, and all interactions with the environment (e.g. the console, or the file system) are exposed via hooks that the caller needs to implement.
Async support. The library is async-compatible, making it trivial to embed it into Javascript via WASM.
The examples directory contains sample code to show how to embed the EndBASIC
interpreter and standard library into your own programs.
examples/script-runner.rs: Shows how to
instantiate full-blown EndBASIC interpreter and uses it to implement a
script runner.