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Gambas 1.0 Release Candidate Available

Posted by Hemos on from the getting-ready-for-the-big-time dept.

raindog2 writes "After two and a half years of development, Gambas has become the first Visual Basic-style environment for Linux to enter release candidate status. Anyone who has been frustrated by a lack of production-quality free RAD environments should give it a try."

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  1. Hmmmm by black6host · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Kylix doesn't count? Although the *free* version did have some limitations it was quite possible to develop software in a RAD based environment using Kylix.

    Granted, neither version (free or pay) took off quite the way some would have liked but all the same, let's give credit where credit is due.

  2. Fast by Daengbo · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Wow this project has matured fast. I stumbled on it ??a year and a half ago?? when it was still in its infancy. Every once in a while I visit it, expecting it to be dead like so many other projects that I try to follow, but I am always suprised by new material on the front pages.

    Congrats to the Gambas developers for being such work horses! I am impressed.

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  3. What about the Visual Editor project on Eclipse? by Ikeya · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Maybe the Visual Editor isn't in release status? (I think it is, but I'm not sure.) But this definately isn't the only nor the first visual editor project. Check it out if you're interested in a RAD platform with graphical elements very similar to Visual Basic, etc. It uses Java and not BASIC, but I don't see that as a bad thing.
    Oh yeah... it's also open source.

    The Eclipse Visual Editor Project

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