If you liked the style of VB development – draw the form, then fill in code for the controls – but you're not wedded to BASIC itself, then there are other contenders that we feel we must mention. There are also two separate FOSS languages with very similar names: Microsoft Small Basic, and the separate, independent SmallBASIC. There are a number of much more limited FOSS BASICs indented for educational use, many of which are in the repositories of common Linux distros, such as BASIC-256, Bywater BASIC, and Yabasic. There's also a largely compatible multi-platform open source interpreter, Brandy BASIC, which has been forked and updated as Matrix Brandy BASIC. There are now multiple editions, several of which are free to use. The Reg FOSS desk's personal favourite, the original BBC BASIC, is still around and in active maintenance. Also Windows only is the commercial Liberty BASIC. Remarkably, the free community edition of Atari ST classic GFA-BASIC for Windows is still getting occasional updates. A community called QB64 Phoenix is actively developing a new Phoenix Edition.Įven more old-school, TrueBASIC, originally created by BASIC's original developers John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz, is still on sale. So does QB64, although the dust has yet to completely settle over a split among its developers. The standalone FreeBASIC compiler is in active development and aims to be compatible with QuickBasic. There are also tools for those who preferred the classic, less GUI-oriented forms of BASIC, such as VB's forerunner QuickBASIC. The FOSS XBasic project is still in around, with an active community, various flavours on Github as well as an actively-developed Windows version called XBLite. It's descended from Zedcor's classic ZBASIC, it's in active development and it's freeware, but not open source. PureBasic started out in 1998 as an Amiga app, but that version is historical now and developer Frédéric Laboureur released the source to version 4.0.īrilor Sotware's FutureBasic runs on the Mac and hooks into XCode. PureBASIC is more of a traditional, non-object-oriented BASIC, but it does have a graphical form designer. Sibling products are B4A for Android and B4R for Arduino, and the paid-for B4i for iOS. It grew out of a PocketPC development tool called Basic4ppc, so its mobile support is strong. Gambas – short for Gambas Almost Means Basic, although it also means shrimps in Spanish, runs on Linux and has got rather further: version 3.18.1 was released last month.Īnywhere Software's Java-based B4J is proprietary but free, with a BASIC-like language and an IDE. Other projects just aim to create something with a similar feel, rather than a perfectly accurate and compatible replacement.
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