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.

Re:Best logo

[keesh]

If you're going to abuse them for lack of professionalism, why not just point out that they use <blink> elements?

Code monkey

[Uukrul]

Code monkeys do the best that they could as you can see graphically [frmb.org].

Funny wallpapers ...

[invi]

Oh well ... but they *do* have funny [sourceforge.net] wallpapers [sourceforge.net] ... and notice the clever placement of the windows, guess MDI has its advantages after all :)

Re:Best logo

[Diabolical]

Hey.. that's to attract all those Windows/IE users...

Re:So now it's ok to like VB?

[FireFury03]

I have always seen VB as a Bad Thing (and I see this in the same light).

IMHO BASIC is not and never has been a suitable language for writing real world applications. Gluing all the extra functionality needed onto a language such as BASIC has always seemed like a really bad idea to me and IMHO a lot of the VB syntax is very inconsistent because of this.

Additionally, I think that VB has probably single handedly cause a lot of buggy software to be introduced:

- Any muppet can create something in VB that _looks_ good
- Said muppets are not trained in how to program so the back end logic is probably screwed and bugridden to hell.
- Managers don't use the software they buy for their underlings so they buy based on the fact that it looks good rather than how well it works.
- The underlings who actually use the software now have to put up with the bugs.
- Managers perceive that they are getting a "good deal" by getting the pretty software from cheap untrained coders.
- People who actually can program lose their jobs in favor of the cheaper untrained people (who are producing software that looks as good but is full of bugs).
- planes and satellites fall out of the sky
- nuclear reactors melt down
- world ends :-/

Writing languages which make things easier for people who _can_ code is a Good Thing, but care must be taken to prevent people who can't code from producing bug ridden applications that they can sell to the managers. Like it or not, no matter how much pointy-and-clickyness you add to a programming language, you need some brain work at the back end to write the logic that ties it all together - people who don't have the mental discipline can't do a good job of this.

Re:project's aims (from site)

[mikeage]

So what tool do you use to put ;-) after every other sentence?