Was looking around at the best programming languages for Linux and found one web site that included Gambas.  While all the other languages had pretty much a laundry list of cons, Gambas had only one con listed.  That one con was that it wasn't cross platform.  Since you can run Gambas on Windows now I don't feel that cross platform will be a problem in the future.

Have you got a link to this?

Sorry it was a web site that listed the best programming languages in linux not the top ten. Gambas was listed as #9 in the list. But here is the link….
https://www.slant.co/t…ktop-linux-application-in

Lack of cross platform has always been the biggest con yes, though it is certainly true that WSL on Windows 10 is making it rather moot. Otherwise I certainly think it is highly under-rated. The only comparable IDE to me is Lazarus, and it is far less polished.