Purebasic, spiderbasic comparison to xojo

[dickey]

Read this as well on the FutureBasic site…cool

Working with nibs
With nib files, you create and manipulate your user interfaces graphically, using Xcode, instead of programmatically. Because you can see the results of your changes instantly, you can experiment with different layouts and configurations very quickly. You can also change many aspects of your user interface later without rewriting any code.

[TomasJ]

@MGD

PB’s UI “gadgets” are generally simpler

Yes, but you can bind to GTK in very easy way.

@MGD

No cross-compilation in PB

At least on Linux you can crosscompile with wine for Win aswell. In stark contrast it has a commandline compiler what makes it easy to integrate in your own CI/CD

@MGD

But it does build small, single-file executables on each platform

This is one main reason why I favour PB and even Freebasic. Freebasic a bit more because it is real free (in terms of GNU) software.

@MGD

Generally, PB feels like a lower-level language

True, with all its advantages and disadvantages.

For me Xojo is mainly a MacOS App with Windows and little bit Linux, Mobile and Web. PB is more even in its crossplatform support.

[SteveW]

@MGD

– I particularly miss the ListBox with ability to render your own cells

There are some excellent free and open source gadgets available here including a very good ListBox ( ListEx ).

[SteveW]

@pjsmith67

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.

You can with SpiderBasic ( it builds on top of Apache Cordova and you can use Import to add additional Cordova modules too ). The most recent version of SpiderBasic has added Onsen UI gadgets to make it look better on mobile too.