Visual Basic for Linux is here, sort of. In my search for the perfect RAD environment for Linux I came across a project called Gambas. Gambas is a Visual Basic like development environment for Linux which is very much like Microsoft’s drag and drop Visual Basic but it is not a clone. For an Open Source project Gambas makes for a really nice Rapid Application Development (RAD). Adding one line of code I was able to create a basic “hello world” application.

I wouldn’t call the software as complete as Microsoft’s Visual Studio and .NET SDK but it just is easy to use. Gambas is in the Ubuntu software repository so installation is cake.

Check it out here.
http://gambas.sourceforge.net