Company:Digital Mars
| Industry | Software industry |
|---|---|
| Headquarters | Vienna, Virginia, United States |
Digital Mars is a small United States software company owned 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 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 web site.[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
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]
References
- ↑ "Digital Mars Features". http://www.digitalmars.com/features.html.
- ↑ "Digital Mars License Agreement". http://www.digitalmars.com/download/dmcpp.html.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Randy Davis, Stephen (October 31, 1988). "Zortech Ships First C++ Compiler". PC Magazine (New York: Ziff Davis): 38. https://archive.org/details/PC-Mag-1988-10-31. Retrieved March 7, 2018. ""The first true C++ compiler for the PC"".
- ↑ Stanley B. Lippman (1997). C++ Gems: Programming Pearls from The C++ Report (SIGS Reference Library). ISBN 0-13-570581-9. ""It was first implemented by Walter Bright in a version of his Zortech C++ compiler""
- ↑ "Using C++ and Verilog in QSPICE". https://www.qorvo.com/design-hub/videos/using-c-plus-plus-and-verilog-in-qspice.
- ↑ "QSPICE Revolutionizes Power, Analog Device Circuit Simulation". https://www.eetimes.com/qspice-revolutionizes-power-analog-device-circuit-simulation.
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