For Moderators - Any clue when BASIC will be released?

[soutbarr]

Are there any hints for when the BASIC compiler will be released?

[arne_v]

As for your other comments, a lot of companies are jettisoning Java

Almost all big companies use some Java.

Android apps.

Custom backend applications - today that would typical be SpringBoot micro-services running in k8s.

Used by platform software:
* ActivemQ/ArtemisMQ, Kafka etc.
* HBase, Cassandra, Voldemort etc.
* Lucene, SOLR, ElasticSearch etc.
* Spark, Hive, Flink, Flume etc.

Difficult to avoid.

Microsoft is not a traditional Java shop., but one of their Java people revealed that Microsoft internally run 2 million JVM instances.

[arne_v]

IMHO, Cpython is the only way to go.

If "Python compatibility" is a requirement then CPython is the obvious choice. It is the original. Any other implementation may not work with some modules.

But those looking for performance may look for alternatives: PyPy, Cython, Codon, GraalPython etc..

Those that need Java interoperability look at old Jython or newer GraalPython.

Those that need .NET interoperability look at old IronPython or newer Python.NET.

There are options.

[debbee.west]

We anticipate that BASIC will come out with the next product announcement from VSI.