Alternatives to programming with Visual Basic ??

Kevin Tough · 04-27-2006, 02:36 PM

I've started to learn to program with Visual Basic 2002 (.Net). I've written a program to do simple CAD text translations. I've had no luck with Wine or Mono to get it running in Linux. I'd appreciate any suggestions or Web addresses were a person could check out the alternatives to programming with Visual Basic.

Sincerely,

Kevin Tough

Vagrant · 04-27-2006, 02:46 PM

Well there are thousands of programming languages out there. You could write in C# and target mono or use Java. What is the goal exactly?

geeman2.0 · 04-27-2006, 02:51 PM

There's also gambas, which is a project to recreate visual basic in linux. It's not exactly complete though.

mrcheeks · 04-27-2006, 04:25 PM

If you are not targetting only windows operating systems i would suggest learning python or java.

Suggestions for the java alternative
I think you could try first to learn C#(Vb.net with ; at the end of a statement, [] instead of parenthesis). If you then know C#, it is easy to learn java. I easily switched from visual basic to Vb.net --> C# ---> Java
http://java.sun.com
http://javacad.sourceforge.net/

Suggestions for python
http://www.python.org/
http://www.pythoncad.org/
I will start learning python soon, it seems very easy like visual basic.

sekelsenmat · 05-02-2006, 08:25 PM

Personally I suggest Lazarus. It´s a Delphi clone fully capable of RAD development.

It´s really easy to use, powerful and generates native executables on each platform. Currently it supports Linux, Windows, Solaris, all BSDs, Mac OS X, Windows CE

It´s website:

http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/