[Ilugc] Re: How powerful gambas is ??
- From: senthils@xxxxxxxxxx (Senthil Anand)
- Date: Tue Nov 10 21:22:45 2009
Balachandar wrote:
Kenneth Gonsalves <lawgon@...> writes:
I think it is more of a toy - try dabo if you like. It has much wider
support.
Then what is the use of it.Is there any applications built using
gambas.Can one build application using it or not??where it lags..
In the late 90s, there was a big push by many FOSS projects to develop
Rapid Application Development environments for use under free Unixes
since most of the MS Windows desktop programmers were comfortable with
Visual Basic and Delphi rather than the commandline tools.
Gambas is one of the VB inspired projects which actually released a
usable product and is usable under X11.
Lazarus is modelled upon Delphi and is written in Free Pascal and works
in both Unixes and Windows.
Gambas is useful if you know VB and want something similar under X11 and
works in both KDE and GNOME. Try this page for software done using
Gambas :
http://freshmeat.net/tags/gambas
To learn a bit about the capabilities of Gambas go through this wikibook
:
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Gambas
There are not many FOSS applications built using Gambas or Lazarus
mainly because Basic and Pascal have the reputaion of being
bondage-and-discipline languages. Gambas has a further disadvantage in
that it is not usable under Windows. Lazarus seems to be more used under
Windows than Unixes since it follows the philosophy of "write once,
compile anywhere" and has a robust Windows user base.
Dabo written in python is much younger(apparently from 2004) when
compared to Gambas(1999). It's main draw seems to be that it is not a
yet another web framework (YAWF) written in python and is cross-platform
as it is based on wxPython. The only other desktop framework in Python I
am aware of is kiwi which is based on pyGTK, so mostly X11 specific. The
newly released Ubuntu's quickly (
https://launchpad.net/quickly) seems to
include kiwi as a dependency - not sure of this.
On the Ruby side I am aware of Shoes
http://github.com/shoes/shoes as a ;
desktop counterpart to Ruby-on-Rails.
I am not aware of a Dabo or Shoes package for any Linux distribution.
All the other packages are available in various distribution repos.
Disclaimer: I am not a VB, Delphi, Python or Ruby programmer though I
can read code in those languages and mostly understand them. All the
above is very incomplete and just based on stuff I read while being bored.
Regards,
Senthil
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