Microsoft Small Basic is a simplified version of Visual Basic, designed to make programming more accessible and fun for beginners. It is an educational language created by Microsoft to help students learn to code. It has an easy-to-use, drag-and-drop interface and is made up of a simple set of commands. The language is designed to be easy to read, write and understand. It allows users to write programs quickly, and provides plenty of tools for creating user interfaces, graphics, animations and more. Microsoft Small Basic also provides plenty of tutorials and resources to help beginners get started.
Discontinued Aptana is still under development on GitHub but the latest version, 3.6.1, was released in October 2014. It lacks Java 8/9 features, as well as more recent JavaScript and HTML 5 features.