EndBASIC 0.14: can it play a GIF

Honestly, the most interesting part of the EndBASIC 0.14 release isn't the multimedia support itself-it's the philosophical choice to keep it so deliberately constrained. The author is explicitly resisting the urge to bolt on modern GPU acceleration or web APIs. Instead, we get a SDL2-based canvas for drawing primitives. It's a microcosm of the whole retro-computing renaissance: the joy isn't in the fidelity, it's in the friction. I spent an afternoon with the DRAW command this weekend. It's weirdly liberating to have to manually plot a circle instead of importing a library. There's a tactile feedback loop missing from modern stacks. You feel the machine, not the framework. It's the difference between driving a manual transmission and riding a self-driving bus. The real question for the project isn't "can it play an MP4?" but "can it sustain a creative spark without collapsing into feature bloat?" The author is walking a tightrope between minimalist purity and genuine usefulness. I hope they keep the guardrails tight.