Microsoft’s tiny, squishy C++
That’s enough staring backward for now. Let’s look, for a moment, in a different direction and consider a compiler that once was the king of C++, but with time, its shine faded. OpenWatcom is an open source integrated development environment and suite of compilers for C and C++ (and Fortran too, but that language is not in focus in this book), originally developed by Watcom International Corporation and released as open source by Sybase in 2003.
It supports multiple operating systems, including DOS, Windows, OS/2, and also Linux, and is the de-facto compiler for programmers who have an interest in creating fun, free-time projects for retro platforms.
Not necessarily for the money, but instead for that joyful feeling of sweet nostalgia shivering through one’s spine when they are in front of an 80x25 screen. Maybe that’s the reason most senior programmers today use a grid of VI editors running in a terminal tiled...
