QBasic Web IDE
Run your QBasic programs in the browser
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Details
- External ID
- 1270943
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Web IDE
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 6, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 2
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.76
- Tags
- Retro Games, Software Engineering, Side Project
Description
I built an independent reimplementation of the QBasic 1.1 compiler and IDE that runs entirely in the browser. TypeScript + Svelte 5. Works on your phone too.
Enrichment
- Niche
- browser code execution environments
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- browser-based ide for running qbasic code
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Implementing a full, independent QBasic 1.1 compiler, AST parser, runtime interpreter, and virtual screen/audio emulator in TypeScript/Svelte requires deep compiler design and emulator engineering knowledge.
What it would actually take: The implementation demands a handwritten or generated lexer/parser (e.g. via Chevrotain or ANTLR) to produce a QBasic AST, followed by an interpreter or bytecode VM that faithfully executes QBasic semantics. It also requires an emulated environment for legacy text modes, CGA/EGA graphics plotting, and Sound/Play audio synthesis directly in HTML5 Canvas and Web Audio API, which requires specialized compiler and emulator programming skills.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 54 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #10 of 55 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 286 days after the earliest competitor.
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