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REALbasic To Add Linux support

Posted by timothy on from the awoogah-awooooogah dept.

__past__ writes "REAL software just announced that the next version of their REALbasic IDE will add support for building native Linux applications, in addition to the Windows, Mac OS classic and OS X targets. Given that it will include a converter for existing Visual Basic projects, this could be a usefull tool for migrating existing apps written in everybody's favourite language to free platforms, something that other projects like Gambas or KBasic don't address."

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  1. Re:Why is it... by Tom7 · · Score: 3, Informative

    I think that's meant to be sarcastic, though I've seen figures that indicate it is the most popular language in the world.

    Anyway, Visual Basic is essentially the Windows "Perl," so I wish linux kids wouldn't act so high-and-mighty about it.

  2. Re:Being a VB Developer Myself... by Electrum · · Score: 3, Informative

    wishing I knew another app-dev language replace VB

    Check out Delphi.

  3. Re:Being a VB Developer Myself... by thecampbeln · · Score: 3, Informative
    App-Dev - Applications Development environment, preferably an IDE (Integrated Development Environment, generally a GUI (Graphical...))

    But seriously, VB is (one of the) most widely used programming environments for applications development because of the many features it possesses, namely the IDE/GUI and programming features (memory management, string manip., etc). Give me that on Linux and I'll migrate over to it ever quicker!

    --
    "1984" was ment to be a warning, not a guidebook. You hear that Kim Jong-il!? BushCo?!
  4. Re:X86 GNU/Linux only by Mars+Saxman · · Score: 3, Informative

    Initial release will be ia32 only.

    Who knows what the future will bring - but we already have a PowerPC backend, so it's not unreasonable to think linuxppc support might show up in another release or two.

    Mars Saxman
    compiler guy at Real Software