Google’s WWWBasic project allows you to write web-page interactivity using a BASIC-like syntax that will be recognizable to anyone who grew up with early personal computers in the late 1970s and 1980s (it can be imported within Node.js, too, so you can mix Javascript and BASIC).
The demo code on Github includes an implementation of the IBM PC game Donkey, an impressive graphics demo, and a prime number calculator.
Is it practical? Probably not, but we enjoyed seeing our old friend Basic show up in the browser again. The fact that unlike VBScript it is sort of retro just made it that much more fun.
It’s The Web, Basically [Al Williams/Hackaday]