Kostyabkg,
I also used dev-cpp in the past (and are still using it a little bit), I have loved dev-cpp, I still do, but for the time has come to say goodbye to dev-cpp.
Why ?
1) Well, the number of bugs of dev-cpp is becoming very high (I remember the days , where the total amount of bugs was below 40-50).
I have reported a huge amount of bug reports some years ago, and the majority of them got fixed real soon, and requested features got added also rather quickly, by the dev-cpp team. Note, at that time one of the dev-cpp team members was Yiannis, aka Mandrav.
Then at a given moment I noticed the progress in dev-cpp to slow down, I think it was around the time that Yiannis was no longer showing up in the cvs commits ;-). Some new developers joined the team and again there was a boost in fixes etc ...
But now for over then 9 months no new release has happened. And the latest cvs action on the sources is 3 months ago, adding code folding.
I am shedding a tear, cause I suspect it is nearly dead. It was a great project and deserves the respect of all of us.
2) CB is better and faster ! ANd very importanly I can be used with nearly any compiler (for compilation, not debugging). To me that is very important, since I manage a lot of code that nees to be run on different platforms.
3) It is written in c++, so I can (and I do) help with debugging CB, fixing bugs, adding plug-ins. I do not know delphi (dev-cpp) and I do not want to learn it (not enough time to learn a new language and environment).
CB is still missing some features that dev-cpp had, just a few example :
- matching braces switching (ctrl-shift-b), well I have implemented that as a plug-in, and Yiannis promised he would add it to the core (any news on that one Yiannis ?? ;-) )
- class/function drop down list in the toolbar section
Don't worry, I think a whole lot of these features will come to CB, and I myself, will do my very best to help implement those and try to be in that way a help to the CB developers.
I think everyone has a preferred IDE, let it be dev-cpp, CB, or M$. Let's be honest M$ Developer Studio is great, but as always you suffer so M$ annoyances. Thoug "I" prefer to work with a smaller and faster IDE, like CB, though several functionality is still missing compared to other IDE's. But hey, look at the potential of CB, this is so promising, and already delivering, that it makes such a nice experience and users journey to use it.
Every day a bug is fixed or some feature is added. When M$ has a bug, well wait 2 to 3 years for their next version ,where everything has changed and maybe, maybe that bug is fixed.
The only thing for us, the community is support the project, try to help, try to be part of the development of CB (does not have to mean "develop", but using/testing/feedback/...), and enjoy "our" product to grow and get better day by day.
OK, enough evangelism.
Time to debug a bit, cause we want to get rid of some of those nasty bugs in CB ;-)
Cheers,
Lieven