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| Paradigm | Structured, imperative, procedural |
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| Family | BASIC |
| Designed by | Fantaisie Software |
| Developer | Fantaisie Software |
| First appeared | 1998 |
| Stable release | 6.11 LTS
/ June 5, 2024 |
| OS | Windows, Linux, macOS, Raspberry Pi OS, AmigaOS |
| License | Trialware |
| Filename extensions | .pb, .pbi, .pbf, .pbp |
| Website | www |
PureBasic is a commercially distributed procedural computer programming language and integrated development environment based on BASIC and developed by Fantaisie Software for Windows, Linux, and macOS. An Amiga version is available, although it has been discontinued and some parts of it are released as open-source. The first public release of PureBasic for Windows was on 17 December 2000. It has been continually updated ever since.
PureBasic has a "lifetime license model". As cited on the website, the first PureBasic user (who registered in 1998) still has free access to new updates and this is not going to change.[1]
PureBasic compiles directly to IA-32, x86-64, PowerPC or 680x0 instruction sets, generating small standalone executables and DLLs which need no runtime libraries beyond the standard system libraries. Programs developed without using the platform-specific application programming interfaces (APIs) can be built easily from the same source file with little or no modification.
PureBasic supports inline assembly, allowing the developer to include FASM assembler commands within PureBasic source code, while using the variables declared in PureBasic source code, enabling experienced programmers to improve the speed of speed-critical sections of code. PureBasic supports and has integrated the OGRE 3D Environment. Other 3D environments such as the Irrlicht Engine are unofficially supported.