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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.

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One reason is that it made a great case study for modernizing an app from Delphi 7 to the latest version.

https://blogs.embarcadero.com/embarcadero-dev-c-successfully...

> 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.

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