I mean at least Jesus gave free wine and bread.

I'd really love to see some researches on scientists who NEVER marry/have kids against people who married and have kids.

The VM is completely independent from the frontend. It also provides primitive functions interacting with the system, e.g. printing to console and drawing lines/circles, etc to different devices. It also implements an abstract VFS, which seems to be of a different concept comparing with the VFS in the kernel, because it is in user land. It is the frontend to tokenize and parse the language and call upon the VM to do something useful.

I think this is pretty common among compiler designs, except that most compilers don't implement drawing functions or user land file systems, while EndBASIC's does that -- if my assumption is correct. In essence it looks like a user land operating system.

That's why I have decided to perhaps leave the field. I want to move to some other fields where programmers are still expected to learn engineering in the old way.

You can also buy food so that you don't have to cook.

I'd definitely live in the office if given the chance -- i.e. my wife divorces me and company allows.

BTW I'm glad MSFT is aggressively pushing AI into VSCode. Maybe they will destroy VSCode in the process, just like Windows -- or at least give other smaller guys some breathing spaces.

Please do, MSFT.

It is also one of the fields that does have very complex systems. OS kernels, distributed database engines, AAA game engines, you name it.