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Imagine you're programming in BASIC, have a cross compiler at your disposal, and the available targets are none other than:

• Commodore-64
• Commodore VIC-20
• Commodore-16
• Commodore Plus/4
• Commodore-128
• Commodore PET series
• Commander X16 (beta)
• MEGA65 (beta)

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Impossible? Not at all.

Creator Csaba aka @xc_basic provides exactly that with XC=BASIC – and it's free of charge.

Statically typed, advanced control flow statements, local, global and shared scopes, static or recursive subroutines and functions, forward declaration, overloading … and the list goes on and on.

Even though there might not necessarily have been a need for another BASIC for Commodore machines, being able to cover the entire fleet with a single implementation is more than appealing.

Great project, but judge yourself.