radbasic

Hi! I'm Carles Royan. Join to this Patreon community to support RAD Basic development. About RAD Basic RAD Basic wants to bring a new IDE and compiler 100% compatible with Visual Basic 6 or "Visual Basic classic". Visual Basic was first released in 1991. The final release was version 6 in 1998. VB6 or Visual Basic Classic was known as rapid application development (RAD) because you could design your GUI very fast dragging components and with a few lines of code your application was working and useful. In 2021 there is a lot of people developing with Visual Basic 6 and a lot of active applications built with it. And they need a real alternative because they are developing in a 20 years old tool with no new version available. You could see RAD Basic in action here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-WcLQVgrG2EkFPzVaMg4mw And get into website for more info: https://www.radbasic.dev Why Supporting Me? All the development done until now was in my free time, as a side project. But, for publish a 1.0 release stable and 100% compatible with VB6 it is not enough. A project such big and complex like this needs full dedication. So, the crowdfunding campaign will allow me to dedicate 100% of my time developing RAD Basic and pay external expenses as iconography design or text proofreaders. Why should we believe you can deliver? I'm working as Software Engineer for about 15 years. I have a lot of experience in compilers field. I have worked in compilers at university. Check out Degree Final Project: compiler/translator from pseudocode to Java (sorry, it's written in catalan). And I did some work with ANTLR and hibernate (HQL parser). Basic was my first language and Visual Basic Classic was a great discover for me: you could build great and professional looking applications with so little code! I am a passionate person I have worked in this project for more than two years. I have solved a lot of challenge features and RAD Basic could run some small applications as you could see in videos. So, it's a matter of time and resources for take this project to completeness.