PureBasic for Windows and Linux was released in 2000 (the Mac version is probably a little more recent, that for Amiga a bit older, and the latest for Raspberry PI is a few years old); a community got active in 2001.

> In today's era

In today's era it's still priceless to have a tool that * compiles to a native machine code executable; * is lean and fast - you can get results quickly and from a light efficient interface; * does pretty much anything (and in case you are missing anything in the native libraries, you can interface with external C libraries)...

And (subjectively) can be a real pleasure to use.