Other projects just aim to create something with a similar feel, rather than a perfectly accurate and compatible replacement. Running DOS on 64-bit Windows and Linux: Just because you can.

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While Basic4GL has gone quiet, a port of it to the JVM, Basic4GLj is in active development. In alphabetical order, some we found include GLBasic, HBasic, KBasic and its descendant Basic for Qt, sdlBasic, and Janus Software's Phoenix. There have been many such projects over the years, but sadly, many seem to have gone dormant.

We reckon that the two projects should talk: they might benefit from teaming up. That's good, as there's as little to see on twinBASIC's Github as there is on the RAD Basic one. The Reg has covered one of these, RAD Basic, a couple of times: first when it attempted to crowdfund its development, and later when it released its third alpha version.Ĭlosely comparable is twinBASIC, which publishes weekly updates so you can track its progress. Perhaps because VB started off as a one-man project, multiple people and small teams have sought to recreate it, or something like it. The Microsoft deal paid for a team of five to rewrite it as Ruby, then Microsoft combined it with its Embedded BASIC interpreter to turn it into Thunder, launched as Visual Basic 1.0 in 1991 – half way between Windows 3.0 and 3.1. In this interview he explains that Tripod was originally intended as a construction kit to build a new shell for Windows 2. The direct ancestory of VB, Tripod, was originally built by Alan Cooper, author of The Inmates are Running the Asylum. For a long time, Microsoft has been focusing on. Way back in 2014, Microsoft said it would go open source, but all that emerged is the rather less interesting Roslyn. Good old VB has been visited with some affection recently, as Reg sister site DevClass has discussed.

If you miss the simplicity of putting an app together with drag-and-drop in VB, there are some alternatives that might tickle your tastebuds.

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