Harbour

Harbour is an open-source software publisher dedicated to maintaining and advancing the Harbour programming language, a modern, cross-platform implementation of the Clipper/xBase syntax that powered countless business applications in the 1990s. The project delivers a compiler, runtime, and comprehensive set of libraries that let developers write high-performance console or GUI programs once and deploy them unchanged on Windows, Linux, macOS, BSD, Solaris, and even mobile or embedded targets. Typical use cases include porting legacy Clipper systems to 64-bit environments, building lightning-fast database front-ends for PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite, or Advantage, scripting batch processes that demand multi-threading, and creating REST or SOAP services that coexist with contemporary cloud stacks. Harbour’s syntax remains familiar to Clipper veterans—commands like @…SAY/GET, MEMVAR, and DBFNTX—while adding contemporary features such as hash arrays, JSON, Unicode, regular expressions, and bindings to C, Lua, or .NET libraries. Because the toolchain is lightweight and royalty-free, independent developers, municipalities, and ERP vendors continue to choose it for invoicing, inventory, payroll, point-of-sale, and telephony applications that must run reliably on everything from legacy XP boxes to Raspberry Pi clusters. The publisher’s software is available for free on get.nero.com, where downloads are delivered through trusted Windows package sources such as winget, always installing the latest upstream build and supporting batch installation of multiple Harbour editions or companion tools.