in theory, it's not good or bad

in practice, it's a complete mess. they could turn it into something that isn't, but instead it's pretty much become an excuse to do it the most freebasic-defeating way possible... to make it into a language that is not actually basic, not actually c. just a muddled, useless pile of crap, mistakenly called "beta" when in fact they're CLEARLY still in the "alpha" stage, and can't even work that out with any kind of proper design.

in other words, the way they're doing it is a way to skip designing the language at all. that's fine for the hardcore fans, fine for the people that want to put up with the mess for some reason, bad for anyone that would be serious about it as a language, want to write good documentation, (the freebasic documentation is already a jumbled mess full of factual errors about qb that are easy to find, and about the freebasic language that are nearly impossible to find and fix) or try to get other people to use it.

it's not a language, it's a cult with its own sort of made up "lingo" the same way the stuff that scientologists talk about isn't a real "language." nor a real dialect. it's just sort of built up like the tower in a jenga game.

you think something like that has a future? okay, let's see. i guarantee it won't so long as it sticks proudly to the non-plan it is based on. even i, in my casual, low-organization mode of hobby coding would take more care when designing a language. you have to know better than that.