Wow. You guys work fast. Nice job.

I spent the last 3 days testing out TwinBASIC by taking on something with a more teeth than just printing simple stuff with MsgBox. I decided to really test it by writing a GUI application using pure Win32 from scratch(no copy and pasting code from anywhere) and purely using Visual Studio Code to get a feel for the debugging experience. I just finished it and released it here if anyone wants to check it out.

I have to say, it is really impressive how capable TwinBASIC is, even at this time with bugs and issues popping up here and there. Even though it's still very far from it's goal of VB6 compatibility, it felt like a complete product in it's own right. I had very little trouble coding against the Win32 API and I felt as if I could do anything I wanted. In this regard it is EVERY BIT as capable as VB6.

That being said, I do want to address some major pain points with the debugging experience in Visual Studio Code. Now, the debugger is very solid but not very intuitive to use. The biggest issue I had the entire time was getting breakpoints to work. The biggest pain with that is that I can't just run the application from the Build button if I want Stop or breakpoints to work. I had to use the run feature the "run procedure under cursor" which required me to go back to Sub Main and put the cursor under it every time. This was unbelievably annoying to do. I want to be able to set a breakpoint and run the application from right where I am, like I've been doing since QuickBasic.

Another very important thing that I really missed was the ability to put Debug.Print in my code to spit out data about the state of my application at runtime. Not having this ability slowed me down massively, especially when combined with what I said above about getting breakpoints to work.

There were a lot of other minor issues that I can't recall right now but those were my biggest problems.

Anyways, my overall experience with TwinBASIC was good. I was really impressed and I had a lot of fun testing this out. I'd like to continue but I have already spent 3 days on this and I need to get back to my work. Keep it up guys. TwinBASIC has real promise.