twin
====== twinBASIC ======
{{tag>twin}}

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A "freemium" BASIC for Windows whose main goal is to achieve "100% backwards compatibility" with [[vb:vb6|Microsoft Visual Basic 6]], according to [[https://twinbasic.com/|its website]] — but with a lot of new features it is not simply a clone, but a branch of BASIC on its own.

By January 2024, a version 1.0 release was set to July 2024, but early development releases had been available since April 2021 in its [[https://github.com/twinbasic/twinbasic|GitHub repository]].


===== Where it is/was used =====
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  * Microsoft Windows 7+


===== Noteworthy characteristics =====
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===== Environment and usage =====

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No attempt of creating a successor to VB would be legitimate without a visual, RAD-style IDE — and twinBASIC does have one.

As of January 2024, the existing (and indeed extensive) documentation seemed much more targeted to twinBASIC developers than users.


===== Extensions =====
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===== Curiosities =====
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===== Related to... =====
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  * **[[vb:vb6|MS Visual Basic 6]]** - In spite of having no real links to Microsoft, compatibility with the original, beloved and abandoned VB has been the priority of the project.


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===== References =====
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  * https://github.com/twinbasic/documentation/wiki , last checked 2024-01-04
  * https://twinbasic.com/ , last checked 2024-01-04

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