What are the disadvantages of BASIC?

Question

as far I went into the language I only saw advantages about the use of BASIC. what are the disadvantages?

Answer 1

Well, not knowing PureBasic, I can't speak for its ability to use shared objects (or dlls), but if it can then there will likely be some overhead doing so, though it'll effectively mean you aren't limited to the PB world. I don't know if there's much 3D support directly for PB (if it handles third-party modules, it may plug into SDL at a cost). Ultimately, it depends on your future. If we're talking linguistics, moving to a C-ish dialect is made harder by learning PB first. If PB covers the sum total of your needs, use it. If you plan to use C++, Java, or anything similar, skip PB and rather learn your primary goal.

Answer 2

Sorry for not specifying, i'm talking about purebasic

Answer 3

There are none other than "bad habits" and "ruining ability to learn proper languages". Thing is none support hectic game dev (though QB64 was used to clone DOOM's engine). Overhead isn't an issue for modern machines (although compilers are improving, interpreters are still quite slow). It can be limiting with what you can do with it (then again I've seen GPIO pins on a Rasberry Pi coded with BASIC). I think it comes down to ruining C-based languages for some people, ie mindset, thinking in BASIC, basically. I started on BASIC and turned out okay :)