Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to FreeBASIC

The top open-source alternatives to FreeBASIC are QB64, Python, and Lua. One of the criteria for ordering this list is the number of mentions that products have on reliable external sources. You can suggest additional sources through the form here.

QB64 Landing Page
1

QB64

Development
Pricing:
- Open Source
#IDE #Game Engine #Text Editors
Python Landing Page
2

Python

Python is a clear and powerful object-oriented programming language, comparable to Perl, Ruby, Scheme, or Java.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Programming Language #OOP #Generic Programming Language 280 social mentions
Lua Landing Page
3

Lua

Powerful, fast, lightweight, embeddable scripting language
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Programming Language #OOP #Generic Programming Language 22 social mentions
Rust Landing Page
4

Rust

A safe, concurrent, practical language
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Programming Language #OOP #Generic Programming Language 44 social mentions
Haskell Landing Page
5

Haskell

An advanced purely-functional programming language
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Programming Language #OOP #Generic Programming Language 21 social mentions
Ruby Landing Page
6

Ruby

A dynamic, interpreted, open source programming language with a focus on simplicity and productivity
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Programming Language #OOP #Dynamic Programming Language 3 social mentions
Squirrel (programming language) Landing Page
7

Squirrel (programming language)

Squirrel is a high level imperative, object-oriented programming language, designed to be a light-weight scripting language that fits in the size, memory bandwidth, and real-time requirements of applications like video games.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Programming Language #OOP #Generic Programming Language 2 social mentions
Visual Studio Code Landing Page
8

Visual Studio Code

Build and debug modern web and cloud applications, by Microsoft
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 1011 social mentions
Nim (programming language) Landing Page
9

Nim (programming language)

The Nim programming language is a concise, fast programming language that compiles to C, C++ and JavaScript.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Programming Language #Generic Programming Language #OOP 142 social mentions
Figaro Landing Page
10

Figaro

Figaro is a probabilistic programming language that supports development of very rich probabilistic models and provides reasoning algorithms that can be applied to models to draw useful conclusions from evidence.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Programming Language #OOP #Generic Programming Language
Scala Lang Landing Page
11

Scala Lang

Scala is a pure-bred object-oriented language that runs on the JVM
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Programming Language #JVM Programming Language #OOP 5 social mentions
RenPy Landing Page
12

RenPy

Ren'Py is a free and cross-platform visual novel engine that helps you use words, pictures, and...
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Visual Novel Engine #IDE #Text Editors 16 social mentions