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REALbasic To Add Linux support
__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."
This is a good thing for Linux folks, and perhaps somewhat for Mac folks.
RealBASIC has been a popular RAD tool on the Mac for a while. I doubt many folks using Linux are going to want to run out and switch to BASIC, but existing RealBASIC programs should now be easy to port to Linux.
May we never see th
Is this only going to be ia32 GNU/linux only, or also sh4, ppc, ppc64, ia64, arm, s390, s390x, m68k, sparc, alpha, etc. GNU/LINUX?
That's what I thought it meant. So explain to me again why C/C++, Ruby, Java, etc, are not considered "app-dev" languages?
Give me that on Linux and I'll migrate over to it ever quicker!
What the heck are you waiting for! I'm not a Java developer, but everything you want is already available. I'm a C++ person, so I prefer KDevelop, Qt and Designer, which gives me what you say you want. C++ may not have garbage collection, but it does have memory management, made even easier with Boost. Or what about Kylix? Black Adder? (RAD with Ruby, awesome!) Anjuta? Eclipse?
I don't use Linux, I use FreeBSD, but the development platforms for them are identical. If I can do it on FreeBSD, you can do it on Linux.
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