FreeBASIC Reviews

1. Jose Galeno

   over 5 years ago
   Can Not to Comapre FREEBASIC is a COMPILER NOT AN IDE

   HAS IDE AS FBEdit, FBNP,WINFBE, VisualFB, etc

   Competitors: Visual Basic

   Pros:    Compiler|32|64|Windows linux mac|Mingw32 and mingw64|Free to use|Binding to c, c++

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FreeBASIC mentions (5)

• Microsoft's Growing Control of Linux

  Outside of Microsoft created QB64: - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QB64 - https://lunduke.substack.com/p/the-wild-events-that-nearly-took Outside of Microsoft created Visual Basic IDE: - http://gambas.sourceforge.net/en/main.html - https://github.com/wekan/hx/tree/main/prototypes/ui/gambas Outside of Microsoft created FreeBasic: - https://freebasic.net. - Source: Hacker News / about 4 years ago

• qb.js: An implementation of QBASIC in Javascript

  If you have linux or windows, you can try freebasic. I believe it has a qbasic compatibility mode. Source: almost 5 years ago

• Ask HN: What are your opinions on modern BASIC dialects?

  Have you looked at https://freebasic.net/ and https://www.qb64.org/portal/ ? It's been ages since I actually wrote code in BASIC, but there do appear to be nice open-source options in the modern world. - Source: Hacker News / almost 5 years ago

• How to compile a BASIC code in linux ?

  I used https://freebasic.net/ ages ago. Works fine. Source: over 5 years ago

• Blank Projects - Then And Now

  And here you can live though that pain again: https://freebasic.net/. Source: over 5 years ago

OpenRouter mentions (38)

• Chinese LLM API Pricing Comparison 2026: The Definitive Buyer's Guide

  Channel differences: first-party endpoints vs. Aggregators like OpenRouter, Requesty, and Eden AI. - Source: dev.to / 5 days ago

• Databricks drove down AI coding spend 70%

  Omniagent looks quite similar to OpenRouter (https://openrouter.ai/). - Source: Hacker News / 26 days ago

• GLM-5.2 is the step change for open agents

  It's very easy to use other providers. See https://openrouter.ai/ which also let's you filter by where the provider is hosted and their data retention policy. - Source: Hacker News / 2 months ago

• Testing GLM-5.2 on OpenCode: I'm impressed!

  If you want to try it yourself: grab OpenCode, point it at OpenRouter, select GLM 5.2, and give it a real task instead of a benchmark. The z.ai docs have the rest of the details. - Source: dev.to / 3 months ago

• AI Gateways in 2026: a field guide to the 106 cost problem

  Hosted, minimal ops. You want to be calling models in five minutes and you are fine paying a small fee for it. OpenRouter is the marketplace default — 400+ models, ~5.5% on credits. Vercel AI Gateway and Cloudflare AI Gateway go further and charge 0% markup, billing you at provider list price while adding routing and caching on top. - Source: dev.to / 3 months ago