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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. Ver' interesting by 0x0d0a · · Score: 3, Insightful

    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.

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