RedPanda C++ Reviews

Good

portable, fast

Hi, I am a teacher and I want to thank you for such a job! It's a really awesome development environment. I'm going to create an online course for kids based on Red Panda C++. I was a big fan of Dev-C++ as an IDE for beginners, but it really needed an update. What you have done is just wonderful! Thank you very much!

Thanks for this app. Now I use it instead of Embarcadero Cpp. It has issues with w64devkit toolkit (make clean). But changing " RM = del /q /f" to "RM = cmd /c del /q /f" in the makefile solves it with no harm to other toolkits.

I was very glad to hear today that the Dev-C++ cause is alive. Keep up the good work.

This is exactly the IDE I was desperately looking for! I write my code on a Surface tablet and I just don't have the processing power and drive space to use something huge like Visual Studio. This app is tiny, fully portable and it was the only reasonably sized IDE that can (kind of) work with Microsoft's Visual C++ compiler out of the box. It won't pass the correct arguments to the compiler in order to point to the paths where additional libraries and includes are located, so it's only usable for standard C++ and code targeting native Windows API functions. It won't allow me to compile code using third party libraries, but that's okay for now. I used UPX to compress some of the files, including the main executable, and slimmed down the Visual C++ compiler folder in order to work with a minimal file set. Now I can develop code for the Windows API with a lean and mean IDE. The folder containing both Red Panda and the bare bones MSVC compiler has a footprint under 50 MB!!! Small is beautiful, and less is more...

I highly recommend this IDE for lightweight C/C++ compiling/debugging to everyone who missed Dev-C++. It automatically finds toolchains(GCC, TDM-GCC, MinGW, Clang, etc...) installed in a host system so there's nothing additional to do with complex toolchain set-up. Also there are 'automatic code completion' and 'Problem Set' features, so if you were a student who practice PS solving contest this IDE is the best IDE you can get. Apple silicon M1, M2 Mac OS(Arm64) can run this IDE since last week(v.2.23). I tested it on my M1 Macbook and it runs normal as Windows. The only thing I want to suggest is configuring running enviroment. It would be nice to be able to specify a specific external terminal to run the program, or to see the results of running the program in a terminal or 'Tools Output' inside the IDE.

Nice to see, that Dev-C++ is alive again.

Amazing!!! Good job guys! I know the're probably some other things to implement (actually I already love it!) .. Anyway I still hope that the developers will have time to provide also the Italian language for the IDE, cause the high school's books are still based on the old Orwell Dev-C++ 5.11 version, as it's the only Dev-C++ fork that provide an interface also with the italian language... Please help, I'm trying to convert all the courses for using the new RedPanda C++ IDE. prof. R. Mele

God, I love this!!! I was completely out of imaginations about using Dev C++ on Archlinux while I was trying to find one before I have ever been acknowledged about this rebirth :) of Dev C++. What a move!