How is this free?!?

[InTheSwiss]

I am learning to code and while I was looking for C compilers and development environments I stumbled across Pelles C so installed it and I am seriously impressed how professional it is. From my understanding it is worked on by just Pelle Orinius so my question is how on earth does one person build something as good as this by themselves?

Granted I am just learning so I don't know first hand if there are huge problems with Pelles C but from what I have read it is a pretty solid compiler and IDE.

It seems pretty amazing that one person can work on their own compiler and IDE that has support for so much! C11. Windows 32 and 64-bit. It is all pretty incredible and I find it difficult to understand how one person can do something like this!

[Stefan Pendl]

Education, practice, experience and many more things like patience, that a developer needs.

You can still donate to Pelle for his compiler suite, if you find it useful

[InTheSwiss]

Hi Stefan,

I am still pretty amazed that one person can produce such a polished system though. I mean I see other C compilers and C IDEs which are no where near the polish I am seeing with Pelles C and I know that a lot of these things are pretty time consuming which is why you see a lot of working but not quite 100% things. It boggles my mind all of the things supported in Pelles C.

Also it is cool to see an UltraDefrag dev! Is a nice defrag utility which I have used a lot.

[DMac]

The saying "Rome wasn't built in a day" applies to this compiler suit also.  Pelle tells the story about the origins of his tools but it is hidden in the about link on smorgasbordet.  From this, it is apparent that this is the work of a lifetime.  Although we don't hear from Pelle as often as we used to in the forums.  You can be sure that he is still actively maintaining the code base; adding features that keep Pelle's current and up to date.  It remains the best platform for C99 and C11 development on Windows.

[Bitbeisser]

The saying "Rome wasn't built in a day" applies to this compiler suit also.  Pelle tells the story about the origins of his tools but it is hidden in the about link on smorgasbordet.  From this, it is apparent that this is the work of a lifetime.  Although we don't hear from Pelle as often as we used to in the forums.  You can be sure that he is still actively maintaining the code base; adding features that keep Pelle's current and up to date.  It remains the best platform for C99 and C11 development on Windows.

Well, one thing that makes "a (little) bit easier" for a single developer is that it is a plain C compiler, not C++, not C-crap, ...

Ralf