How have I lived for this long on the interwebs an never realised this was a thing?

2022 https://github.com/kollokollo/X11Basic And https://codeberg.org/kollo/X11Basic

> The interpreter (xbasic) can be used as a shell. It can run basic-scripts in all environments, p.ex. *.cgi-Scripts for handling web-input.

This is both terrifying and something I definitely want to play with.

There was also Basmark QuickBasic Compiler for Linux,

https://archive.org/details/bqb49