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Free IDE Gambas Reaches 1.0
A few months ago, the GPL IDE Gambas reached 1.0 release candidate phase, and now reader drfreak writes "Gambas has now hit 1.0 and looks promising as GNU/Linux's answer to Visual Basic. Now, if it ran in Windows too, it would truly crush VB for database applications. Check it out at gambas.sourceforge.net." A 1.0.1 release came out on January 3rd to fix a few bugs.
One glance over the screenshot tells me i'm not going to use this. Windows cluttered all over the place. It's a pity. Please, OSS developers, even if you hate MS Windows, a few things in there are actually done quite good...
You could always get your trusty hole punch out and continue handcrafting those cards?
Mod this down!!! This idiot doesn't know what he is talking about!!
Well as I know my VB 6.0 rather well I'll definitely be giving this a go but I can't help thinking it's rather late. After all I doubt it'll even be comparable to the Visual Studio .Net IDE.
.Net IDE. Sorry but I've never used any other tool that even remotely compares to it (and I've used quite a few over the years)
.Net IDE. Trying to develop code in anything else makes me feel like I've gone back to the early '80s, writing COBOL with a plain text editor (hey I needed the work and that's what was paying).
If there's one thing that'll keep my place of employment using an MS operating system it's that damned fine
Whilst Sharpdevelop, Monodevelop, Eclipse and probably Gambas etc. etc. are good in their own way they just don't compare to using the
On another note I wholeheartedly agree with several other posters. The screenshot with a burning Windows logo simply makes the project look utterly childish and unfit for professional use. And for gods sake, the GIMP style "fling stuff all over the screen" IDE sucks, sucks, SUCKS. No wonder our project managers call Linux a toy operating system. It may be based on the soundest computer engineering principles on the planet but the GUIs look like they've been designed by spiders on LSD.
Don't even get me started on the comical lack of a consistent cut & paste. Sorry it's 2005 that's wholy unacceptable.
But having said all this if Gambas let's me knock up some cheap and cheerful apps on my home PCs I'm all for it - See, I do actually use Linux it's just that I'm objective enough to realise how superior Windows is in some areas.
Don't like the site's informal look? Where is your mockup of a better one then?
I swear, every time you people say something like that, my blood pressure skyrockets. Do people demand that movie critics make their own movies? Do people demand that restaurant reviewers cook their own food? Of course not. You're just making yourself look stupid, so shut the fuck up.
Oh, and this is coming from someone who likes the Gambas site's layout. Well, I can't stand that damn blink tag, but everything else is fine.
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