Qbasicnews.com

This is the homepage of KBasic. Apparently, it's almost finished and is supposed to be 100% Qbasic and VB compatible.

Wow...this might be an actual reason to migrate to Linux again.

Looks good, except:

1) There isn't a demo due until June
2) It'll cost 24.95 euroes...

I still signed up for a preview though.

24.95 euros isn't a whole lot...I think it'd be well worth it, considering how much Visual Studio costs...*shudder*

Time to make that Fedora Install I've been planing for so long

These kind of things should be ported to other systems as well. That would ensure something that would be great for the BASIC world: actual portability (yeah, XBasic, yeah... I mean something serious ).

I find BASIC to be quite portable anyways. But like C, it's not the language that's portable, it's the programmer that's portable... An experienced BASIC programmer can pick up a new BASIC at any time and begin using it almost immediately. That's why I'm pretty psyched about this thing...at last, a compiler for Linux I can actually USE!

If this is as good as it sounds like it will be, I plan on porting every one of my VB6 games to Linux...it will be a great boost for Lost socK as well as Digital Satin...

KBasic is dead.

There's many linux basics (xbasic, purebasic). the problem is, is they're so painfully slow you may as well learn c.

Joe: Thought you said a while ago that PureBASIC is fast?

Relatively fast. But still only about 1/4 the speed of GCC... and compared to Intel's and Borland's compilers even that's pretty slow.