Gambas

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In software development, Gambas is an object-oriented dialect of the BASIC programming language, along with an integrated development environment to accompany it, which runs on GNU/Linux and other Unix-like computer operating systems. It is intended to provide a similar experience for developing BASIC programs to Visual Basic. Gambas is intended to be an alternative for former Visual Basic developers who have decided to migrate to GNU/Linux.

'Gambas' is a recursive acronym for "Gambas Almost Means BASic" (hence the alternate capitalization "GAMBAS"). "Gambas" is also the word for prawns in the Spanish language, from which the project's logo is derived.

Developed in Paris by Benoît Minisini since 1999, Gambas is free software, released under the GNU General Public License. The current version as of July, 2009, is 2.15.0

Piga Software has used Gambas since early 2007, partly due their previous experience with Visual Basic 6 (main development tool during 2004-2005) and QBasic. They have grown to like the language, citing that it has all the ease of development offered by BASIC without many of the problems in Visual Basic, and enjoy its massive support for GNU/Linux libraries such as QT, GTK, Mesa 3D, and SDL and installation methods such as GCC, RPM, and Debs.

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