![]() For this I think there is little dispute so I leave it to you to decide if Xojo is a BASIC or not. The best way to describe Xojo to someone unfamiliar is a “modern event-oriented cross platform alternative to Visual Basic 6”. ![]() The company and language were renamed to Xojo and now share only a common syntax. When REALbasic was ready to launch a new aesthetic for their IDE it was time to disassociate further from BASIC. ![]() Visual Basic despite its popularity was always seen as the ugly step child of the Visual Studio family and today is seemingly neglected by Microsoft. That may be true from a certain point of view as Xojo is most comparable to Visual Basic. Xojo is very cautious to embrace their BASIC beginnings and always asserts that the languages only share a common heritage. The CEO of Xojo Geoff Perlman has said that if a user associated Xojo with the original BASIC then that would be a “wildly inaccurate association”. ![]() Xojo is without a doubt a derivative of the BASIC family of programming languages. This is the first part of a multi-part review series on the Xojo programming language, environment, framework, add-ons, community, and more.
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