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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. Oh joy! by Cody+Hatch · · Score: -1, Troll

    Just what the world needed, another programming language.

    Also...assuming you do feel that the VB.NET syntax is awful (and it's really pretty decent), and so aren't satisfied with current mono efforts to port VB.NET, I still don't see why you wouldn't have your new language compile to the mono runtime. The benefits would be substantial, and I don't see a drawback. It's free, opensource, and you can leverage a BIG chunk of pre-existing code and infrastructure. But if I read the FAQ right, not only is Gambas not based on mono, the author says it will never be. Why not?

    On the other hand, hey, it's his project, he can write what he wants, and maybe he just wanted to do the whole thing from scratch. That being said, I'm just not seeing a compelling incentive here for anyone to use it. Anyone want to point out something I'm missing? The world is hardly short of languages right now.

    I mean, even if I had some powerful urge to use a basic syntax on linux (which seems pretty deviant, frankly), I'd just hold out for the mono port of vb.net to get to a usable level. :-)

    'course, regardless of the fact that I have no use for it, and I doubt very many other people will...dude! He wrote a programming language! Mad props.

  2. Re:What about the Visual Editor project on Eclipse by advocate_one · · Score: 0, Troll

    that leaves you trapped in the "Java trap"... you can't build truly free applications with it.

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    Donald 'Duck' Dunn: We had a band powerful enough to turn goat piss into gasoline.
  3. I already have an ide by Billly+Gates · · Score: -1, Troll

    ITs called Xemacs and has been around for years as a full production environment and not just an editor.

    Gui's are cute little things but an integrated debugger and other utilities are what is really needed to get production level coding done.

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    http://saveie6.com/
  4. Re:Windows support? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I know, FREE (as in beer for MS toolchain, and a Free IDE in #develop) is very expenive, way too much for a /.er.

    Fucking Knob. At least TAKE A FUCKING LOOK FOR YOURSELF before spawing the same shit everyone else at /. does.

    FUCKING dick.