Dev-C++ Is a Low Memory Windows Native C++ IDE Built in Delphi • Hacker News Board

Re: Dev-C++ Is a Low Memory Windows Native C++ IDE Built in Delphi

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Post by ksec » Sun, Dec 27, 2020, 6:14 AM UTC

Stierlitz wrote: post #56

Any particular reason why these two posts were rendered dead? ------- H_Pylori 1 hour ago [dead] [–] Back in the day, Dev-C++ was the ideal IDE for the C/C++ beginner. Simple, easy to use and very light in term of resources. I remember being able to run Dev-C++ on a 166Mhz Pentium I with 32Mb of RAM (which was hopelessly obsolete even by then). You could even install C libraries automatically as DevPaks. ------- ku-m…

First one is no longer dead so it was rescued. Second one doesn't add anything useful.

I am not sure if all these are manual or some sort of flag / downvoted automated process. But generally speaking it is doing a pretty good job.

Re: Dev-C++ Is a Low Memory Windows Native C++ IDE Built in Delphi

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Post by vkaku » Sun, Dec 27, 2020, 10:17 AM UTC

Nicely done. There were many a times I had wished they had shipped this to Linux as well :)

Re: Dev-C++ Is a Low Memory Windows Native C++ IDE Built in Delphi

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Post by pjmlp » Sun, Dec 27, 2020, 11:12 AM UTC

dunce2020 wrote: post #60

Karliss wrote: post #58

I wonder what's the motivation behind this fork. Embarcadero is the company currently maintaining and selling Delphi dev tools. They also have their own commercial C++ IDE. Is it treated as demo App for their own toolchain.

> Embarcadero Dev-C++ has a low memory footprint because it is a native Windows application and does not use Electron. Seems like they're using it as a VS Code offering/counter.

Which is great, looking forward to have less Electron fat on my computer.

Re: Dev-C++ Is a Low Memory Windows Native C++ IDE Built in Delphi

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Post by sedatk » Tue, Dec 29, 2020, 6:47 AM UTC

7thaccount wrote: post #30

sedatk wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How is it more hackable than VS?

I don't think Visual Studio is "hackable" at all. Are you thinking of Visual Studio Code? Aren't the two very different? The first is a very large and commercial Windows application written by Microsoft and the latter is a free/open-source IDE with numerous plugins written as an electron app.

I agree, VS isn't very much hackable, but, is Delphi any more hackable either?