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Comment by vageli | Hacker News Reader

The interface reminds me a lot of Dev-C++ [0]

Man, Dev-C++ was amazing! A breath of fresh air in a world of super shitty user interfaces for coding. It's awesome to see the site still up!

I had an instant liking for Geany (which came preinstalled on a distro I was using... Crunchbang I think), and I think now I understand why!

My workflow has moved to tmux+vim which gives you a similar visual layout as Geany, but I'm glad to have had the opportunity to play with an editor which was as easy to play around with as Geany!

This may be the first time I've ever seen praise for Dev-C++... The only reason I ever used it was because it was free, in a world where Visual C++ was insanely expensive, and trying to get libraries and compiler toolchains setup involved some bloodshed.

When I was first learning C in engineering school, the profs were writing their lab instructions for the free copy of Visual Studio that we got. This still caused a headache among a number of students, so once myself and another student found Dev-C++, it was a watershed moment for the majority of the class that was up to this point (myself included) rather noobish, and Windows-only.

This is the IDE that I learned how to program with. So many fond memories. I like how the site is still up!

Yep, just had a huge nostalgia trip. I remember learning how to make GameMaker libraries using Pascal, C++ and Bloodshed's IDEs!

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