Editing Gambas (section)

{{Short description|Integrated development environment}}
{{Distinguish|Viola da gamba}}
{{for|the [[Romania]]n village of Gâmbaş|Aiud}}
{{infobox programming language
| name = Gambas
| logo = [[File:Gambas mascot.png|left|95px|Gambas Logo]][[File:Gambas 3 logo.svg|right|65px|Gambas 3 Logo]][[File:Gambas2-logo.png|center|65px|Gambas 2 Logo]]
| screenshot = Gambas-3.3.4-Xfce-Fedora16.png
| screenshot caption = Gambas 3.3.4 running on [[Fedora version history#Fedora 16|Fedora 16]] with [[Xfce]]
| year = {{Start date and age|1999}}
| designer = [[Benoît Minisini]]
| latest_release_version = 3.20.0
| latest_release_date = {{Start date and age|2025|01|10}}<ref>{{cite web
 | url = https://gitlab.com/gambas/gambas/-/releases
 | title = Releases · Gambas / gambas · GitLab
 | access-date = 2023-11-15
}}</ref>
| latest_test_version = 
| latest_test_date = 
| influenced_by = [[Visual Basic]], [[Java (programming language)|Java]]<ref name="influenced">{{cite web | url=http://gambaswiki.org/wiki/doc/intro?nh&l=en | title=Gambas Documentation Introduction | publisher=Gambas Website| access-date=2017-10-09}}</ref>
| operating_system = [[Linux]], [[FreeBSD]]; versions for<br />[[MacOS|Mac OS X]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://allbasic.info/forum/index.php?topic=118.0|title=Gambas 3 OS X|date=2011-06-16|website=AllBASIC|first=FranÃ§ois|last=Gallo|access-date=2023-09-28}}</ref> and [[Haiku (operating system)|Haiku]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://discuss.haiku-os.org/t/gambas-on-haiku/10500|website=[[Haiku (operating system)|Haiku]]|title=Gambas on Haiku?|author=djgpp|date=March 2021|access-date=2024-02-25}}</ref> drafted; [[Microsoft Windows]] through [[Cygwin]] and [[Windows Subsystem for Linux|WSL]]
| license = [[GNU General Public License|GNU GPLv2]]+
| website = http://gambas.sourceforge.net
}}

'''Gambas''' is an [[Object-oriented programming|object-oriented]] dialect of the [[BASIC|BASIC programming language]], and an [[integrated development environment]] that accompanies it.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/basic-guide-gambas-need-know/|title=The BASIC Guide to GAMBAS: All You Need To Know|website=MakeUseOf|first=Matthew|last=Huges|date=2015-03-03|access-date=2023-02-11}}</ref> Designed to run on [[Linux]] and other [[Unix-like]] computer [[operating system]]s,<ref name="FOSSwire">{{cite web |url=http://fosswire.com/post/2008/09/gambas-almost-visual-basic-for-linux/ |first=Peter |last=Upfold|title=Gambas&nbsp;— Almost Visual Basic for Linux |date=2008-09-08 |publisher=FOSSwire |access-date=2011-05-07}}</ref> its name is a [[recursive acronym]] for '''''G'''ambas '''A'''lmost '''M'''eans '''Bas'''ic''. Gambas is also the word for [[prawn]]s in the [[Spanish language|Spanish]],  [[French language|French]], and [[Portuguese language|Portuguese]] languages, from which the project's logos are derived.