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Free Programmers' Resources

Free Programming Language Compilers
Comprehensive list of compilers for numerous programming languages.

Free Source Code and Programming Libraries
Source code and libraries that you can use in your own programs.

Free Programming Tools and Utilities
Tools to make your programming job easier, such as editors, debuggers, static code analysis, disassemblers, compiler construction tools and grammars, file comparison, search and replace, help authoring, setup utilities, resource editors, and lots more.

Programming Documentation
Online tutorials (free), online references (free) and frequently recommended books (not free) for programmers and webmasters.

Free Emulators and Virtual Machines
Run multiple OSes simultaneously, run a Mac OS on a PC (and vice versa), run a PC virtual machine inside your existing PC, etc.

Free Webmasters' Resources

Free Web Hosting and Cheap Web Hosting
Free and budget web hosts where you can place your website, blog, software, video, music, etc.

Free PHP Scripts || Free Perl CGI Scripts
Free programs that allow you to add a wide variety of facilities to your website, including forums, polls, counters, search engines, blogs, wikis, photo galleries, etc.

Free Remote Script Hosting
Free services that allow you to set up a forum, feedback form, search engine, poll, guestbook, counter, gather web statistics, etc, when your web host does not support scripts.

Free Webmaster Tutorials and Articles
Tutorials on running your own website, earning income from your site, writing your own PHP scripts, starting a newsletter, search engine positioning, web design, usability, etc.

Other Free Webmaster Resources
Other useful and free webmaster resources that don't fit into the above categories, such as WYSIWYG HTML editors, validators, DNS, FTP, SSH, and so on.

Free Security Resources

Free Security, Privacy and Anonymity Tools and Resources
Tools to safeguard your computer (such as antivirus, anti-spyware) and data (backup, recover lost data) as well as to ensure your privacy (eg encryption, anonymous surfing).

Free Utilities and Applications

Free System Utilities
Free utilities to recover your data, create or manage your partitions, image or backup, and lots more.

Free Multimedia Utilities
Free multimedia tools to edit, capture, process your audio and video, rip your CDs/DVDs, record your TV programs, author your own DVDs or movies, etc.

Free Office and Productivity Applications
Free applications and tools such as word processors, spreadsheets and office suites, image and photo editing software, free fonts, free translation software and so on.

Tofrodos: Unix to Windows/DOS Conversion Utility
Convert text files to/from Unix and MSDOS/Windows file formats. Free with source code.

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Stay Updated (Free) 23 March 2023 28 February 2023
  • The script generated by the Feedback Form Wizard has been updated to improve compatibility with PHP 8 (eg, 8.0, 8.1, etc). Note: if you have generated your form and script after 1 January 2023, you already have this version (ver 3.2.0).
19 December 2022
  • Another service has been added to the Free File Sharing and Storage page. This one lets you upload up to 2 GB and set an expiry date for your files.
28 November 2022
  • A cross compiler that generates code for AmigaOS, Atari TOS/MiNT/Jaguar, WarpOS and MorphOS has been added to the Free C/C++ Compilers and Interpreters page. (You can also find the usual compilers for Windows, macOS and Linux there.)
31 October 2022
  • Have you ever wanted to use a font for (say) designing a particular picture but not wanted to install it permanently into your system? The newest addition to the Free Font Managers page lets you do just that. It allows you to temporarily install a font that will be available to all programs running in the system, as long as the manager is active.
14 September 2022 23 August 2022
  • A cross compiler for Z80, 8080, 8085 (etc) has been added to the Free C/C++ Compilers and Interpreters page. The development system itself runs on Windows and macOS. Note that if you simply want to write Windows or macOS programs, you can also get normal compilers for those tasks from that same page.
2 August 2022
  • A new Windows resource editor has been added to the Free Resource Editors, Compilers and Icon Editors. For those unfamiliar with what this is, a resource editor (in this context) is a type of software that lets you create dialog boxes, icons, cursors and other "resources" needed in a Windows program. They are usually used by programmers when they create a program, but can also be used by (say) webmasters to create icons (sometimes known as favicons) for their website.
7 June 2022 31 May 2022
  • A new open source Amiga emulator has been added to the Free Amiga Emulators page. This one runs on ARM-based boards like the Raspberry Pi, but if you can also find emulators for Windows, macOS, and Linux on the page.
4 March 2022 4 February 2022
  • A new open source script has been added to the Free Content Management Systems (CMS) PHP Scripts page. This is a CMS that does not depend on any database server but saves its data in a text file. Amazingly, the entire download is only 48 KB and has only 7 files.
13 January 2022
  • A new open source software has been added to the Free Password Managers and Password Savers page. This latest one is a Windows program, but there are other programs on the page for macOS and Linux if you use those systems.
2 November 2021
  • If you are thinking of starting your own social networking website, take a look at the Free Social Network / Media Software page, where a new open source program has been added. This one lets you create a microblogging platform (like Twitter) where your users can post text, pictures, videos, and audio.
7 October 2021
  • Another open source program for Windows and macOS has been added to the Free Video Converters or Transcoders. Such software lets you convert video or movies between different formats.
20 September 2021 20 August 2021
  • 4 new open source XML parsing libraries have been added to the Free XML Parser/Generator Libraries page. These programming libraries make it easier for you to write computer programs that handle XML files (whether they are configuration or data files).
17 August 2021 8 July 2021 29 June 2021 24 June 2021
  • Two replacement distributions for CentOS (with ready-to-use downloads) have been added to the the Free Linux Distributions page. These, like the CentOS of old, let you install systems that are binary compatible with the commercial Red Hat Enterprise Linux, thus letting you run programs (etc) that were designed for that system.
17 June 2021
  • New page: Free EPUB Readers (Ebook Viewing Software). If you have obtained ebooks in the EPUB format, you are not restricted to reading it on your hardware ebook device or mobile phone. This page lists many free (and open source) EPUB viewers that you can install on your computer to read them.
27 May 2021 30 April 2021
  • A new program has been added to the Free Font Editors page. This software lets you create your own TrueType or SVG fonts, and it runs on Windows, macOS, Linux, OpenBSD and FreeBSD.
23 April 2021 6 April 2021
  • Another Windows program has been added to the Free CD, DVD and Blu-Ray Burning Software page. This one lets you create ISO files from files/folders on your computer, burn them to CD, DVD or Blu-Ray media, copy discs, among other things.
26 March 2021 16 March 2021
  • The formerly-commercial DarkBASIC Professional, now free and open source, has been added to the Free BASIC Compilers and Interpreters page. If you are interested in writing computer games in the BASIC programming language, or any other type of program for that matter, check it out.
2 March 2021
  • A portable, open source C library that provides utility functions dealing with data structures, thread management, character set conversion, internationalization, and lots more, has been added to the Free C/C++ Libraries page. The library comes from the GNOME project, but is written to be independent of GNOME, and can be used on Linux, macOS, Windows and Unix-like systems.
18 February 2021 16 February 2021 2 February 2021 27 January 2021
  • Four new email software for Windows, macOS, Android, and Linux have been added to the Free Email Clients page. These programs allow you to send/receive email directly from your own computer (or phone), without having to log into a web mail service.
19 January 2021
  • A C/C++ compiler suite from NVIDIA, offering support for parallel computing that use NVIDA GPUs, and full C++17 support, has been added to the Free C/C++ Compilers page. (C and C++ are popular programming languages used by many to write computer programs.)
12 January 2021 29 December 2020
  • Two compilers have been added to the Free Modula-2 Compilers page. (For those wondering what the previous sentence means, Modula-2 is a programming language that you can use to write computer programs. And loosely speaking, compilers are the software that translate your programs, written in a particular language, into a form that can run on the computer.)
11 December 2020
  • Another service has been added to the Free File Sharing and Storage page. This site lets you share files of up to 2 GB, without the need to sign up for an account.
8 December 2020
  • A new emulator has been added to the Free Atari Emulators page. The Atari referred to here was a series of personal computers sold in the early days of computing, and is fondly remembered by those used it then. This software emulates an Atari Falcon (among others), and lets you run your old Atari programs on a modern computer.
4 December 2020 17 November 2020
  • A Fortran compiler has been added to the Free Fortran Compilers page. It handles the Fortran 2003 language (as well as some features of Fortran 2008) but the next version will support the Fortran 2018 language specifications. This compiler only works on Linux but you can find Fortran compilers for other systems, such as Windows and macOS, on that page as well.
12 November 2020
  • If you are thinking of putting a slideshow on your website, take a look at the newest addition to the Free Image/Photo Slide Show JavaScript page. This one does not depend on JQuery, and allows for slides that automatically advance after a specified period of time, or manual advancing by your visitors.
3 November 2020 20 October 2020
  • A new software development suite has been added to the Free Common Lisp Compilers and Interpreters page. This one can generate native code for Windows. For those who don't know what I'm talking about here, Common Lisp is a general purpose, dynamic programming language that you can use to write computer programs.
8 October 2020
  • New page: Free Software to Create Bootable and Multi-Boot USB drives. If you have ever needed to boot from a rescue disk, or an operating system installation disk, only to find that they are distributed in the form of an ISO file or CD/DVD media, these utilities allow you to transfer them, in bootable form, onto a USB thumb/flash drive. In fact, some of them can even create bootable drives containing multiple ISOs, with a menu that appears on startup, letting you select which to boot from.

 


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