Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

@mavica_again I really hope we can eventually find a way to make that not the case.

Windows Script Host is still in Windows 11, & it chooses the VBScript interpreter if a text file is saved with a ".vbs" extension instead of a ".txt" one.

But Windows 11 doesn't even have Notepad anymore, let alone Edit, Edlin, or any other text editor.

Oddly enough, KDE's Kate text editor is in the Microsoft Store. I used it to make sure what I just said was true, & writing a simple "helloworld.vbs" file sparked a moment of joy I haven't felt in any current Windows version in 15 years.

It was a mistake to quit shipping computers and operating systems without even one hobbyist-oriented programming environment preinstalled & featured.

Even a dialect of BASIC, picking up where 8-bit ROM BASICs, GW-BASIC, and QBASIC left off, & much more discoverable & tinker-able than the WSH/VBScript buried deep in every version of Windows since 98, would've been an improvement.

At least then, explorers & would-be hobbyists would have options instantly more viable than the slop machine plague.