thinBasic 1.6.0.10 just released

[erosolmi]

Hi all.

New thinBasic version 1.6.0.10 just released both stable and preview:

• some fixes (as usual)
• new functionalities (UNIONs, Type inherit, ...)
• a better thinAir (thinBasic IDE)
• new TBGL (OpenGL and much more module for thinBasic. It handle 2D, 3D, bone system, entity system, effects. A mast have.) from Petr
• new Oxygen (machine code and macro assembler module developed using FreeBasic - full source code included) from Charles

Plus: ThinBasic Journal. thinBasic community has now a PDF magazine dedicated to thinBasic programming.
http://community.thinbasic.com/index.php?topic=1865.msg13758#msg13758

Regards
Eros

List of changes can be found in thinBasic help on-line at:
http://www.thinbasic.com/public/products/thinBasic/help/html/version_underdevelopment.htm

Download from official web site:
http://www.thinbasic.com/index.php?option=com_docman&task=cat_view&gid=18&Itemid=66
or from mirror site
http://www.thinbasic.org/public/applications/thinbasic/thinBasic_1.6.0.10.zip

[Ehtyar]

This is a very impressive scripting language, though are there any plans to make thinBasic open source? I have difficulty finding motivation to switch to a closed source scripting language that could cease development/become commercial at any time...

Ehtyar.

[erosolmi]

Hi Ehtyar.

thinBasic will not switch commercial at any time. That's sure.
Our work on thinBasic is 100% driver by passion. We earns our money with real life jobs that already give us more "food" than we really need 
We are developing thinBasic since 2004 and released first version in 2005. You can get thinBasic history at http://www.thinbasic.com/public/products/thinBasic/help/html/whatsnew.htm
We are here to stay because (again) we develop for (real) passion.

That said, consider anyone can expand thinBasic with new keywords and functionalities developing thinBasic modules in one of the supported languages: PowerBasic, FreeBasic, C, ASM. So if there is something thinBAsic does not do directly you can create it. Many users has already done that developing 3rd party modules all free and some open source.

Anyhow, if you need more info, let me know here or join our community at http://community.thinbasic.com

Ciao
Eros

[jgpaiva]

erosolmi: I just want to thank you for the way you announce thinbasic's updates on DC. You post on the right section, give all the relevant information (and no more than that), and don't follow the somewhat "spammy/advertisement" trend that others do when referring to their own product.


Just one comment: you might not want to link to the download directly, probably it's better to link to the download page, so that future views of these posts always get the users to the latest version instead of an outdated one or a dead link.

[erosolmi]

Hi jgpaiva.

Thanks for the reply.  I tend not to do in other forums what I do not like others do in mine. Nothing more.

Regarding direct link, the only one I cannot change is the one linking to mirror site because on that site there are no pages, just files.
Primary download is a download area and not a direct link. It will always be valid even if we update thinBasic (and we do very often).
But thanks for your observation: maybe I will change the mirror too.

Ciao
Eros