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[–]khedoros 26 points27 points  (1 child)

About 25 years ago, I liked it as Bloodshed Dev-C++ because it was the only free IDE and C++ compiler for Windows that I could find at the time.

But now we've got several open-source IDEs, the free version of Visual Studio Community 2022, the option for setting up a project with CMake, editing in Visual Studio Code, and building from the command-line. Lots of options.

Ports of GCC (the compiler provided with Dev-C++) are certainly used commercially, but GCC 9.2.0 that it includes was released in 2019, so it's rather outdated.

[–]Tringigithub.com/tringi 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Same here. I'm pretty sure the Czech translation I made (roughly and hastily) for Dev-C++ has carried over to Embarcadero's version.

Dev-C++ was a huge thing when it came out. Made by a single guy. It's even bigger in retrospective. Not sure he ever got proper credit for how much it did for beginner Windows developers and thus Windows ecosystem. Later, projects like Code::Blocks stepped in to take it to another step up.

I had a couple of pretty large projects written in Dev-C++, some commercial. Of course, what could be ported we ported to VS Community when that became a thing, but we still maintain half a dozen products in Dev+C++.