http://gambaswiki.org/wiki/doc/diffvb lists "Differences From Visual Basic" and says "Gambas is not intended to be a clone of Microsoft Visual Basic" and "you can't simply copy your VB projects over and expect them to compile under Gambas".
>Thankfully, in Gambas you cannot use GOTO to trap errors! Instead, use CATCH, FINALLY or TRY For error handling goto is generally much clearer than using exceptions.
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The construction being referenced is On Error [ERR_NO] Goto LABEL, which is not usually local to the error, and, depending on the dialect may be a generic handler that first needs to figure out what error it's handling.
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#15This is fantastic. I've lamented the lack of a good GUI and environment for making desktop apps since VB 4, but it looks like they never went away.
Gambas looks fantastic, and exactly as easy to develop with as I remember VB 4 being. I can't say I can stomach the language it uses, but something like this for Python would be a godsend.
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#16For Windows, MacOS, iOS and Android: check out AppStudio. It lets you code in VB like BASIC. A VB like Design Screen lets you drag and drop visual controls. Output is JavaScript/HTML so it runs everywhere. (Disclosure - I'm on the team)
https://www.appstudio.dev/
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#17Sourceforge? Is this an old post?
The source code is on gitlab
https://gitlab.com/gambas/gambas
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not everyone is jumping into Github.
No but everyone should jump away from SourceForge after the shady crap they pulled. Gitlab is also a thing.
SourceForge has now long been under a different ownership then when the shaddy crap happened. Since ownership changed there has been no shaddy behavior.
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#19In the same vein, we have Lazarus vs Delphi:
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#20In the same vein, we have Lazarus vs Delphi: https://www.lazarus-ide.org/
Lazarus is a lot closer to Delphi though.