I think PureBasic is great because..

[Mistrel]

In lieu of a feature request posts that has gone awry in which an unsatisfactory opinion has been expressed, I propose a new thread dedicated to the PureBasic team to be filled with positive comments.

I would like to personally show my gratitude to the PureBasic team, Fred, freak, Berikco, and also those who I've never met who have helped make this possible.

I think it's obvious that there are many of us that do appreciate the work that's been done to provide us with such a great product. And I would like to see anyone who also feels the same way to take a moment to acknowledge or share why they think PureBasic is so great.

To me, PureBasic has been the stepping stone I needed to understand more revolutionary concepts. It's brought me work, opportunity, and has provoked a positive change in my career. I wouldn't be where I am now without it.

Thank you, Team PureBasic!

[PB]

PureBasic gives me the old-school BASIC that I grew up with, with the added
benefit of small standalone executables that require no runtimes or .NET, and
is well-supported by the team. I also own Visual Basic 5 Pro but haven't used
it since getting PureBasic, despite paying almost AUS $1000 for it originally.
It's just too bothersome creating apps with VB5: you need to declare this and
that just to get things done, then hope your users have the runtimes on their
PC (yes, they CAN get removed, even if shipped with the OS!). PureBasic has
none of these drawbacks, so for me it's the perfect language. Thanks, team!

[Thunder93]

End of yr2005, I was on a mission for a freeware programming language, I couldn't afford well-known popular programming softwares, they all shared one thing in common, prices were all by far too steep for me! And I only wanted to make simple small utilities more for personal reasons, not go professional.

I'm a computer technician working at home, I don't really have much advertising except friends recommending me to their friends and their friends, friends. Don't get many computer jobs in a run of a month, and I'm not on no 'outside' financial assistance. I'm living with my parents, and help maintain the property and the house.

I didn't find any remotely as good freeware choices, but better yet I came across an affordable programming language called PureBasic that had good product details and a informational website with product support forums. The product has unlimited updates, which I was very impressed! shocked! doubtful even!

Besides being very affordable PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE, and with UNLIMITED UPDATES (minor and MAJOR), what else really stood out to me was the way you can customize PureBasic to look and behave, and even more how she performed, and what she could do and how very well written the help file is. Everything pretty much made so simple that an 8yr old could likely program with PureBasic, and likely accomplish something special.

And if you hang on the forums a little while, you'll observe great participation from great minds .. Fred and the PB team and it's users, users helping other users with coding questions and everyone is eagerly to post code snippets. It's like one big helpful family community here.


Bests Regards,
Thunder93

[vanbeck]

I think PB is great because it provides so much so easily. It's probably the best system out there for speedy application development that still affords the programmer full control over everything. If you compare it to the other BASIC languages you simply highlight all that is good about PB. For instance when you need to do something special with multiple application windows, PB puts you in full control instead of the language deciding what should and shouldn't be possible. PB goes as high or low level as you need to go.

Some of the resources and help provided here are incredible, I have yet to find a problem or way to do something that this forum didn't sort out for me.

PB is great because of it's solid design, power, and strong community.

[idle]

I think Purebasic is one of the best kept secrets around. Sure it might scare off the managers and anal retentive types for the moment, though when you consider it's flexibility, power and ease to develop with it's more than quite remarkable. Add in a programming community that's so readily intent to help each other across the whole spectrum of programing experiences from beginners to encyclopedic gurus and you've got a great general purpose language and platform.

A good language doesn't dictate structure or hamper development with nonsensical formalisms.

PB produces small and fast exes with no dependencies, is cross platform has the convenience of easy static linking and inline asm and an additional bonus but only if there's absolutely no other options you can com hither and bloat to your hearts content. So what else would you want.

PB makes .nit look like a fools playground for those who like living in a nanny state and think obesity and zimmer frames are normal, makes VB look like a old rusty tinker toy and makes c look like you where just having a bad dream.

[Captn. Jinguji]

I think PureBasic is good because it basically lets me create the programs that I want in the way (well...usually...) I want with little effort and small resource footprint in what little time I have on my hands for software development.

The features added - especially since 4.0 - are very useful, and what it can't do itself right now can be acquired easily by using other people's libs/dlls.
So...

[Kwai chang caine]

I don't know if it exist some words to say what i think of PB and his creators.

For me it's the better language that i know.
Yes yes , you say to me : "You know just one "

No.... before i bad programming in VB, and i don't understand the API and all the complicate function
Thanks to PB, i understand to much VB

But it have so much advantage that it's too hard to explain all.
Around me, i talk all the time of PB, i eat PB, i breathe PB and i sleep PB

It's incredible, and when i know that great C, ASM programmer and other language use PB......what another visit card has more better ???

PB is the power of world in your hand

And i can't talk of PB without talk of his FORUM and his great members.
PB is also the kindness, be attentive, the knowledge and the help of the more smaller .
Thanks to PB, i have talk to you all, i have play with the same game, i have shared the same oxygen, i have sharing the same women .....humhum no no , not so far not so far, but nearly

PB give me the dream within range of the finger

In one world, and for use the words of the time ...

Like say the actual president of the united state of america
.................................. Parako Bama ....................................



Long life at FRED and his great team.
Long life at his forums
And obviously long life at all his programmer

I love you all

[bembulak]

• Small and fast executables on three major plattforms
• Great GUI-Commands (try to make a crossplatform GUI with other languages...)
• Nice and friendly community, which is relaxed.
• Lets me do the things I want to as a hobby programmier with a small amount of time!

Thanks to the team!

[Heathen]

I love the simplicity. Too many languages over-complicate crap, and I can't stand it. I like being able to just sit down and write a program without having to deal with endless crap in the GUI or having to remember overly-complicated rules. Everything is perfectly intuitive, at least for me.

[zikitrake]

Well, I love PB because is the unique one that has permitted me to do easy applications (vb is an insanity when each client has some different DLLs).

And because on this forum I have found people as Fred, Freak, Srod, Gnozal and other more than I oversight. With his libs, I can do everything that I propose.

And I love it because the forum people permit me to speak English thus of badly

... and sorry for this middle-google translated text

[Psychophanta]

I am indeed very proud to have known the PB compiler, a multiproposal and super-easy to use language in comparison to nowadays programming languages, and if it was not enough, now it is multi-OS.
So then, as said, i am proud to know and use PB, and Fred has to be proud to create and maintain such a unequalled product.


EDIT: And of course we must be very grateful to be able to contact directly to the author and maintainers of PB. We should not pass and forget this kind and humble detail.

[Joakim Christiansen]

PureBasic was easy to learn, and is also a language which you can over time get more advanced with. So I have learned very much about computers this way (I love it)!

And yeah, without it I wouldn't have had this computer I'm writing on, nor the money to get a driving-license and a cheap (very cheap) car. PureBasic can be an easy way for anyone to start their own business (if you give it all and have a lot of patience at least). But in my case sitting too much with the computer also had a negative effect, haha, but I think it's best that I stop writing now...

EDIT:
And btw... I just have to mention this, I really like the community and the fact that you can actually easily get in contact with the developers. Myself I have come with suggestions which over time actually got implemented, we can all affect the development of PureBasic through our feature requests etc, it's bloody great!

Now give me the money Fred! We had a deal...

[Fluid Byte]

Now give me the money Fred! We had a deal...

As soon as you replace that sock on your head with a David Hasselhoff mask!

[Marco2007]

PB is the best language, because there`s Srod
Without his Esgrid, CoMate, ... PB would just be very good
(but still the best for me, because it`s easy to learn for someone like me, who has not so much time and background knowledge about coding)

[heartbone]

I love the simplicity. Too many languages over-complicate crap, and I can't stand it. I like being able to just sit down and write a program without having to deal with endless crap in the GUI or having to remember overly-complicated rules. Everything is perfectly intuitive, at least for me.

I agree.
Additionally PureBASIC is a very good language because everything is logical and in close to optimal order.

Ideas About A New Programming Language For Games (because C++ is too abstruse)


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