twinBASIC

A "freemium" BASIC for Windows whose main goal is to achieve "100% backwards compatibility" with Microsoft Visual Basic 6, according to 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 GitHub repository.

Where it is/was used

• Microsoft Windows 7+

Noteworthy characteristics

Environment and usage

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

Curiosities

Related to...

• 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.

Influenced by

Influence for

Versions and successors

References

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