Anyone know what happened to Dev-C++ and Orwell?
16 08 Feb 2016 19:46 by u/TylerSan
Many years ago while learning C++ at University I came over Dev-C++ by Bloodshed Software. A lot of people in my class found it to be one of the best IDEs available at that time, but then they stopped updating it and everyone went with MS Visual Studio instead.
Then a few year ago I came over a version updated by someone named Orwell. I cannot link to the site since blogspot has been banned. But if you are interested you will find him under orwelldevcpp at blogspot.
The last known update is Monday, April 27, 2015. It would be interesting to find out what happened to Orwell as I would very much like for Dev-C++ to succeed as a cross-platform development environment.
9 comments
1 u/CirdanValen 08 Feb 2016 21:47
It was because visual studio wasn't free until relatively recently. Since MSVC is free, not much reason to use anything else.
2 u/forgetmyname 08 Feb 2016 22:02
It is not free. It is shareware at best, and a pile of steaming hot shit at worst.
2 u/CirdanValen 09 Feb 2016 02:19
Ah, I forgot. Voat is a safespace for anti-M$ers
1 u/forgetmyname 08 Feb 2016 22:02
It is essentially just a GUI editor ontop of GCC for windows. If it isn't broke, don't fix it?
0 u/Drenki 08 Feb 2016 20:35
I dunno. I've been using Netbeans and it's pretty good.