This year Xojo celebrates 30 years. In 1996 they started with the product under the name REALbasic. I got notice about it with an article in a printed Macwelt magazine in 1998. They wrote about REALbasic building macOS applications and having Windows support in beta version. I was keen to try it and asked my parents to get me this software for Christmas.

In 1998 and 1999 I was very busy coding my first applications in REALbasic and put them on a website for people to download and try. End of 1999 I got the first people asking to for for them as contractor and so in April 2000 I founded my company.

In June 2013 the name changed to Xojo to finally made Xojo mostly in Xojo. By using it themselves daily, a lot of things in the IDE improved. Over the years they added Linux support, the web target, iOS and later Android support.

To celebrate the anniversary, Xojo offers a sale in April. You may have got a newsletter about this. And sign-up for the special offers here:

Today through April 20th Take 20% Off Bundles of Xojo + Extras

• Take 20% off your entire cart when you bundle any Xojo license with $45+ in Extras and Merch.
• No coupon is required—the discount will be applied automatically.

We’ll have additional discounts and promotions rolling out throughout April, register to get updates about all of Xojo’s 30th anniversary offers.

If you like to meet the Xojo people, check out our upcoming conference. We'll have four Xojo people there.

See also Reflecting on 30 Years of Xojo.