09-26-2022, 07:29 PM
(09-26-2022, 03:43 PM)oldguy Wrote: It seems like most Basic compilers today are free, except for Liberty Basic and Power Basic. I think this is a trend in the software business today. I was shocked when I saw MS had released C# and I guess a lot of .net as open source.There are a few others which are payware like Purebasic (which I made the mistake of purchasing many years back), True Basic, Xojo. True Basic was created by the guys who originally created the BASIC programming language.
The M$ releasing into open source might be because they want to pull attention to their version of Linux. If not, it's their sudden realization (might be true for other multinational companies) that a lot of people are still stuck with code that used to run well on 32-bit systems.