twinBASIC is a modern version of the classic BASIC programming language. twinBASIC aims for 100% backwards compatibility with existing VB6 and VBA projects. twinBASIC is a superset of VBA and VB6. If your question is about migrating from another language, also use the appropriate tag: [vba], [vbscript], or [vb6-migration]. If your question is about navigating the development environment, include the [visual-studio-code] tag.
twinBASIC is a modern version of the classic BASIC programming language. twinBASIC aims for 100% backwards compatibility with existing VB6 and VBA projects.
The goal is to offer a complete replacement development environment for classic BASIC projects whilst also bringing many new features and improvements over the old VB6 IDE and compiler.
The first preview version of twinBASIC released to the public on 9th April 2021.
The twinBASIC project is still in preview.
IDE
twinBASIC IDE support is provided via an extension to the amazing open source project, VS Code. This first version of twinBASIC will not offer any GUI (form) elements.
Project Roadmap
The following key areas will be developed over the coming weeks and months:
- Forms / GUI support, including full backwards compatibility with existing VB6 forms.
- Native compilation.
- Cross-platform compilation.
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Reporting Bugs
Report all bugs and feature requests to the twinBASIC Issue Tracking Project on GitHub.
The GitHub project page is used only for tracking bug reports and feature requests. twinBASIC is not an open-source project.
Official Resources:
- Project Website
- YouTube Channel
- Wayne Phillips (project creator) on Twitter
- Issue Tracking Project
References:
As the goal of this project is 100% backwards-compatibility with VBA and VB6, any documentation that applies to those two languages should also apply to twinBASIC. Any discovered incompatibilities should be reported to the Issue Tracking Project.
