Gambas
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Gambas is a full-featured object language and development environment built on a BASIC interpreter. It is released under the GNU General Public Licence. Its architecture is largely inspired by Java. Gambas is made up of: a compiler, an interpreter, an archiver, a scripter, a...
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- Free
- Open Source
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- Linux
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List of BASIC programming languages and interpreters
This is a list of BASIC programming languages and interpreters. Some of them are no longer developed, may not even run on modern hardware anymore and some of them are focusing on desktop app development while others may focus on mobile game development. The ones at the top are the ones actively developed as of compiling this list.
Tools like classic Visual Basic
The original release of Microsoft Visual Basic was ground-breaking. It was a development software that put the power of Windows-based app creation in the hands of average PC users. Early tech enthusiasts across the world would wield that power to build software to run small businesses, manage collections of things through custom databases or entertain themselves and others with Windows-based games.
Sadly, with the advent of its .NET platform, Microsoft discontinued support for the classic Visual Basic IDE. While the classic software can still run on modern PCs and the .NET version is still supported, users miss the days when the IDE saw feature additions and continued advancement.
Fortunately, other IDEs have managed to fill the void. This list is comprised of the closest modern relatives as well as outright clones of the beloved classic.
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It has everything you could wish for: A simple Basic syntax, a debugger, compiler, GUI builder and of course a source code editor with syntax highlighting.
I was looking for a modern Basic RAD for GNU/Linux, there aren’t so many. I’ve been working with PureBasic and REALbasic/Xojo for a long time, but I must say, Gambas is beautiful and easy to use, too.
As an ex Visual Basic user (completely removed MS from my life), i was looking for an alternative. I tried many software, but most annoyed the hell out of me! Mostly because i lack the motivation to learn a new language (i am already learning Bash scripting, but that has some limitations on vars and Functions) and i want to drop a button there were i release it and not have to puzzle with grids and shits! About 2 years ago i tried Gambas, but i could not get it running (i was relative n00b to Linux then).. But after a lot of NoNo's i just had to try it again! If i could bent my leg and feet i would kick my own @ss for not trying again sooner, to install Gambas! It is one of (or THE) best VB alternative for linux!! After an hour of playing around, the code is just dripping out of my fingers again, and all feels very familiar! I did not try heavy stuff yet, but for common coding it feels even easier than VB! Some routines are very much simplified vs VB! So for me Gambas is a fat 5 stars!! Ok, now i'm done with the @ss licking, there are some minor(!) glitches.. sometimes when a tooltip baloon pops up, it F's up a part of the window around that the object. But that also could be a thing on my system, because i have it sometimes with the Opera browser also.. it happens very rare. The other thing is that sometimes i can't resize the popup of 'autocomplete/help' but also very rare.. and the other thing is more of a miss of a good help (F1) system where when the cursor is on a keyword and i press F1 it does not get me the help and examples of that object! If you are used to VB then you are very spoiled with that! Other than that, GREAT!! ;)
5 stars + 1
(english is not my mother language, so be gentle with me ;p)