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Re: Gambas: Visual Basic on Linux

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Post by xet7 »

swiley wrote: post #74
TurboHaskal wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For open source, I don't think there's a better one. (Multiplatform) GUI is one of those things you really have to throw money at if you value your time.

Really? What’s wrong with TCL/TK?

There is nothing wrong in TCL/TK. TCL/TK has:

1) SafeTcl for running untrusted code

2) AndroWish for making Android apps

3) Wapp for web apps

4) Embedded SQLite database

5) Expect for automation

6) TclKit for single binaries

7) Hecl for running Tcl code on Symbian devices

8) Fossil that is better than git, stores repo in much less space.

It's not like there is anything wrong in any programming language, when it's still getting features, fixes, security fixes etc.

Problem is, when there is existing large VBA/VB6/VB.Net/Excel etc apps and Microsoft stops developing Visual Basic language.

Re: Gambas: Visual Basic on Linux

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Post by beagle3 »

swiley wrote: post #74
TurboHaskal wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For open source, I don't think there's a better one. (Multiplatform) GUI is one of those things you really have to throw money at if you value your time.

Really? What’s wrong with TCL/TK?

Unicode support, especially for RTL languages, is abysmal.

Re: Gambas: Visual Basic on Linux

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Post by rbanffy »

pjmlp wrote: post #47
rbanffy wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sometimes it's because someone wants to leverage the colossal investment already made in VB code and being able to run and maintain it on Linux is better than being locked to Windows anyway.

On the other hand, I have seen companies locked to specific Linux distributions, so....

That's odd. They must have done something impossibly wrong.

Re: Gambas: Visual Basic on Linux

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Post by pjmlp »

rbanffy wrote: post #84
pjmlp wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

On the other hand, I have seen companies locked to specific Linux distributions, so....

That's odd. They must have done something impossibly wrong.

Yeah, like using commercial software for Linux, depending on distribution specific tools, non upgradable drivers, strange things.

Re: Gambas: Visual Basic on Linux

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Post by Mrat »

jsjddbbwj wrote: post #5
1wd wrote: post #3

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.

Dijkstra would hate you
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