In my last blog post I commented dev-c++[1] to be way problematic! It is time to justify my saying.
So this article sums up to : why dev-c++ sucks! Remember that the dev c++ in question is the 5 beta version!
- Ancient platform
- last updated: something in the last decade
- gcc 3.4.3 (WHAT??? - I am currently 4.3.3-p1 on my gen2) while the dev c++ stable -version 4 [2]- has gcc 2.95
- gdb 5.1.2 (lol - currently I am using 6.8)
- using cygwin (no winapi for native windows runtimes)
- Totally immature
- yeah right! after 5 years in beta stage this thing still crashes! yuppie!
- cryptic project development
- lack of standarized build tools (autotools, make, etc)
- the way the gui controls the gdb seems problematic
The real question when you are about to choose your devenv is why having the wannabe devenv while you can have the real deal! Even the most unattended linux (i.e. slackware [3] :-P) distro, have a decent gcc [4] accompanied with uptodate binutils [4] and coreutils [5],thus providing at least stable development enviroment.
If instead you insist on developing apps on windows make yourself a favour and choose a well adapted tool. i.e. Eclipse [5], netbeans [6] or Codeblocks [7]
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Listen man. Dev C++ if way ahead for a free compiler with commercial probabilities. Go and buy Visual C++.net or Microsoft C++ ifnot satisfied!
April 28th, 2009 at 11:37 am
1) I suppose by commercial probabilities you mean commercial capabilities.
2) dev-cpp or dev c++ is NOT a compiler. It is an IDE (a development enviroment). The compiler for all F/O S IDEs is gcc (gnu C compiler). So I am NOT commenting on the compiler. I am rather saying that dev cpp is outdated (read the first post and below for more info)
I haven’t considered the per pay IDEs if you have noticed, I only write about Free Open Source projects (at the bottom of my post).
Yet they are robust, fully equipped with even greater capabilities that .net development studio could ever implement, or have. And also never forget about the fees
As a bottom line, and as a followup to the initial thread dev-c++ sucks greatly in comparison with the other free open source IDEs. Before 2-3 years it might have been acceptable (yet eclipse still existed back then with the full deal of features quite close up to present status quo). For the closed source proprietary ones I don’t give a damn (and hopefully I’ll never have to).
Cheers
April 28th, 2009 at 12:13 pm
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