[conz]

Obligatory: if using Linux and want the open source equivalent:

https://gambaswiki.org/website/

GAMBAS is a free development environment and a full powerful object-oriented language and development platform based on a Basic interpreter with optional just-in-time compilation, as easy as Visual Basic™ was.

[2ndorderthought]

Thanks for sharing this. If it has a RAD I actually might try this. I don't care what HN says, sometimes I just need to display some data with like 4 buttons without the nightmare that is modern front end. Ya I can write front end sometimes I really don't want to.

[conz]

Absolutely does provide a RAD front-end. It's actually a spectacularly well-provisioned development tool with which you can build Gnome/KDE/terminal apps, and even provides a web forms engine for deploying much the same apps via HTTP.

Its only real issue is that it's a great tool for client-side-first RAD development in an era when much of software development has moved to web-side-first.

Enjoy