RapidQ was my stepping stone from QuickBasic to Windows GUI and server CGI programming. I could not afford VisualBasic and didn’t have a computer with enough disk space to install it. It’s still around online as abandonware and while it’s not “modern” any longer, the bang for buck in getting a simple application going is pretty high.
It compiled to bytecode so you could even compile (at least console and CGI) executables for Linux, and there was something similar to P/Invoke so you could call system functionality for advanced extending.
The author of RapidQ went on to develop RealBasic, but for a long time afterwards (and still today?) there’s a large community of people making extensions and addon components for it.
It compiled to bytecode so you could even compile (at least console and CGI) executables for Linux, and there was something similar to P/Invoke so you could call system functionality for advanced extending.
The author of RapidQ went on to develop RealBasic, but for a long time afterwards (and still today?) there’s a large community of people making extensions and addon components for it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RapidQ