The Website for Open Watcom (sort of) came to life again
openwatcom.org/Posted Jan 25, 2023, 9:18 PM UTC
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Hurray!
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Good news! Hoping they makes at least some progress on all the “to do” in <iostream> and hopefully more of a foray into the STL beyond just vector 🤞
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weren't you celebrating this already a couple of days ago? :D
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I’m still that happy!
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Do you think Jiri will join them ?
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Honestly, I don't know. That is something that they have to decide.
I'm using Open Watcom for a bit of retro programming stuff (writing drivers for Windows 3.1 and a couple of applications just for fun, nothing too fancy though). My problem with the V2 branch is that it is less stable for me than the 1.9 version. It has some more features, but that doesn't help me when half of the environment crashes on me for whatever basic thing I want it to do. Currently I prefer to see more bug fixes and maybe improvements to the C99 and POSIX standards.
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I’m OW1.9 as the compiler using VS19 as the editor and test in DOSBOX before test on my IBM XT - just for the fun of it!
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I'm curious who the "we" are. I can't imagine all the old guard devs are still around after 8 years of inactivity.
Still, this could be good news. While I appreciate the work Jiri has put in to his v2 fork, it has introduced bugs here and there, and while he's fairly quick to try to track them down and fix them, it really is a more than one man job.