> It's may be a strange question, but what do you think about PureBasic ?
I don't think about PureBasic, because it's proprietary. I don't hate proprietary software - I'm sure plenty of people find it useful - but I have no use for it personally. It seems like PureBasic had a _raison d 'être_ around the turn of the millennium, when BASIC / VB was popular in universities and business, and that carries some momentum to the present day. It added Mac & Linux/GTK support, and went a different path than MS VB did with .NET, which probably made it a better BASIC for many business needs. But in the current year there are better alternatives on every level. It can't run on other OSes (ex. FreeBSD) without emulation. Its GUI builder is no longer a competitive advantage given free [Glade](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glade_Interface_Designer) / [Qt Creator](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qt_Creator), which have bindings for many high-level languages. (Not to mention that Java and Mono are now portable and "free".) And the BASIC syntax is (IMHO?) much uglier than languages like Crystal, Swift, D, and especially Nim. </off-topic>
