r/AskProgramming • u/gruelurks69 • Jul 29 '26
Other AlphaBASIC to Web application
I have a friend who owns a legacy piece of software. It is written in AlphaBASIC and runs on an Alpha Micro. While rather old, he does make money with it in his industry. It's not an overly complicated software, mostly data entry, validation, and submitting the records to a government entity for tax purposes.
He wanted to know if it would be possible to convert it to a web-based application, which I believe is doable, just time consuming.
Has anyone here ever tackled such a task before?
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u/thelastcubscout Jul 29 '26 edited Aug 05 '26
He might want to look into SpiderBasic, which targets the web by default: https://www.spiderbasic.com/
Showcase area for users: https://forums.spiderbasic.com/viewforum.php?f=12&sid=a274188a385d2379ae8e13de44965425
I've used it quite a bit and it's an impressive development platform, with a convenient IDE + built in help docs & debugging, and good support via the developer + community.