ignoring price/licensing, what sorts of capability differences have you observed between xojo and purebasic/spiderbasic? i primarily build for mobile, but i do have to build some desktop, as well

Swift’s greatest weakness is that it is only Mac-specific. If you have a Mac and only develop for Mac, then Swift is a very good choice. Otherwise, if I had to choose between Xojo and PureBasic, I would choose PureBasic. Its learning curve is fine, and it is very stable.

Swift is APPLE specific (not just mac, it does iPhone, iPad and even AppleTV), and there are limited releases for Windows I hear

I apologize for my mistake. Do you have any idea if Swift will come to Windows too? I mean developing on Windows like on Mac? Thank you for your advice.

Honestly do not know… my understanding is the biggest thing missing is handling the GUI components of Windows, and an IDE … Windows isn’t an interest of mine so I don’t follow it too closely

Purebasic is great for small utilities or straightforward applications that don’t require big fancy GUI’s. It does not directly support mobile apps but through Spiderbasic you may be able to. I have no experience with that so I can’t say for sure. Best way to describe Purebasic is that its a high…

you can use Swift on other platforms There just arent UI bindings for it so trying to make a Windows desktop app with Swift doesnt work right now As far as I know

[image] npalardy: you can use Swift on other platforms There just arent UI bindings for it so trying to make a Windows desktop app with Swift doesnt work right now As far as I know This is my understanding too. For Windows and Linux it’s mainly console applications. You can build Android a…

As I understand it, Swift outside Mac for UI development is clunky, at best. You can, of course, get native bindings to any UI library that presents a C interface… this would let you write Swift for Windows and WinUI 3 via WinRT, as here: Swift, meet WinRT Won’t run anywhere else, though. You could …

Not to hijack the thread, but say you were considering PureBasic wouldn’t you also consider B4X? Kind regards, Andrew

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Purebasic, spiderbasic comparison to xojo

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