Happy 20th anniversary, KDevelop

It’s exactly 20 years ago to the day, that on an equinox as well the first announcement of a KDevelop snapshot, the 0.1 Alpha, was made:

List: kde-announce
Subject: ANNOUNCE: kdevelop-0.1.tar.gz
From: konold () alpha ! tat ! physik ! uni-tuebingen ! de
Date: 1998-09-22 15:50:19

Dear KDE Enthusiast,

the KDE Team is pleased to announce the availability of:

kdevelop-0.1.tar.gz

It can be found at
ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/unstable/apps/ide/kdevelop-0.1.tar.gz

and at our U.S mirror site
ftp://ftp.us.kde.org/pub/kde/unstable/apps/ide/kdevelop-0.1.tar.gz.

it will probably appear firstly at
ftp://ftp.de.kde.org/pub/kde/unstable/apps/ide/kdevelop-0.1.tar.gz.

Here follows the LSM:

Begin3
Title: KDevelop
Version: 0.1 Alpha
Entered-date: 22 Sep 1998
Description: an IDE for X/Qt/KDE
Keywords: IDE, KDE, X11, Qt, development
Author: Sandy Meier, Stefan Heidrich, Stefan Bartel
Maintained-by: Sandy Meier
Primary-site: http​://www.cs.uni-potsdam.de/~smeier/kdevelop/kdevelop-0.1.tar.gz
Home-page: http​://www.cs.uni-potsdam.de/~smeier/kdevelop/index.html
Original-site: http​://www.cs.uni-potsdam.de/~smeier/kdevelop/kdevelop-0.1.tar.gz
Platform: Linux, needs Qt 1.4 and the kde libs
Copying-policy: GNU Public License
End

20 years of getting feature by feature, sometimes first of its kind, being partially rewritten, getting ported from Qt1 to Qt2 to Qt3 to Qt4 to now Qt5, being made run on non-Linux platforms, seeing hand-overs of maintainers.
At its 20th anniversary KDevelop, now to be called an extensible cross-platform IDE for C, C++, Python, PHP and other languages, continues to provide developers a very reliable and powerful environment to get their code work done. While being inviting to enhance their tool, KDevelop, itself, being a FLOSS software and with no company agenda attached.

I have been a happy user of KDevelop all the years, and currently am giving back to it by doing some development and feature additions.
Be a happy user as well, and then one giving back.
Looking forward to more 20 years, and then some.

KDevelop, ensuring development equity, by day and night. 🙂