It's great that BlitzMax is still being supported, very sad that Mark Sibley is not with us any more too - I discovered this sad news after I saw a linkedIn post by you last year (or maybe the year before) which piqued my interest and caused me to download and install BlitzMax.
I made some things with it too but put it down in the end as I was having difficulties in one filing DLLs for music replay into the exe and the exes were huge for what they were.
Zawran used to do a lot with BlitzMax and his stuff seemed to be of an acceptable size so it's more my incompetence than the fault of BlitzMax.
Going by posts that I've seen Mark create down the years I am sure that he'd be happy that the language was still being supported...
While I am here, there was something else that came after BMAX called Monkey iirc, I don't know how much traction that got and if there's anything being developed with it these days.