Visual Basic is a visual programming environment developed by Microsoft for Windows. Since its introduction in 1998, it has been popular with both professional programmers and programming enthusiasts thanks to its ease of use and practicality, and still has enduring popularity today. At the same time, as the third-generation event-driven programming language, Visual Basic can be said to be the programming language with the largest number of users in the world.

PureBasic is a procedural computer programming language and cross-platform integrated development environment (IDE) for Windows, Mac and Linux (both 32-bit and 64-bit). It is written based on the established BASIC rules, developed by Frédéric Laboureur from France in 1998. Most importantly, the learning of PureBasic is very easy, that's why it has won so many beginners and highly qualified programmers.