Digital Mars
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| Industry | Software industry |
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| Founders | Walter Bright |
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| Website | digitalmars |
Digital Mars is an American computer software company founded by Walter Bright and based in Vienna, Virginia. It makes C, C++, and D compilers, and associated utilities such as an integrated development environment (IDE) for Windows and MS-DOS, which Digital Mars calls an integrated development and debugging environment (IDDE).[1]
The compilers can be downloaded, free of charge, from Digital Mars's website.[2] Product names changed over time. The C compiler was first named Datalight C compiler, then Zorland C, then Zortech C, then Digital Mars C/C++ compiler. The C++ compiler was first named Zortech C++, then Symantec C++, then Digital Mars C++ (DMC++).
The company gained notice in the software development community for creating the D programming language. D resulted from Bright's frustration with the direction of the C++ language and from his experience implementing it.[citation needed] Digital Mars is also notable for having shipped the first commercial C++ compiler for Windows.[3]
In 2002, Digital Mars released DMDScript, an ECMA-262-compliant JavaScript engine, written in D.[citation needed]
History
[edit | edit source]In 1988, Zortech was the first C++ compiler to ship for Windows. PC Magazine ran a graphics benchmark and reported that most executables produced by Zortech ran faster than executables produced by Microsoft C 5.1 and by Watcom C 6.5.[3] Stanley B. Lippman wrote that Zortech was the first C++ compiler to implement return value optimization. Later, the C++ standard required this.[4]
In 2023, Mike Engelhardt released a new simulator QSPICE, which uses this compiler on the backend to allow for C++ and Verilog authored behavioral simulation models to be compiled to native code and loaded by the simulation environment.[5][6]
Reception
[edit | edit source]In a February 1989 overview of optimizing C compilers, BYTE approved of Zortech C 1.07's $90 price, included IDE, and Microsoft CodeView compatibility. The magazine reported that the software "lacks some of the features of those in the $400 range" but its code often benchmarked better. BYTE concluded that "Zortech does everything that a compiler has to do—at an attractive price".[7]
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External links
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