Programmer creates idea with MS Paint

There are plenty of programs that can help you create software. But you probably never realized that Microsoft Paint can serve as the basis for a functioning ide, an integrated development environment.

Programmer Adam Yarris, aka Rubbaboy, programmed MS Paint IDE himself. Its official page and GitHub tells you how it works. This is an application that runs separately from MS Paint and in which the user can indicate where the input and output images are located and to which folder the compiler should write.

Code entered in MS Paint can be compiled and executed with the program. MS Paint IDE uses ocr for this. This is because the output of both MS Paint and the ide software is via images. The application provides syntax highlights and uses Java’s jdk to compile and run the code. In addition, there is git support.

According to the maker, the advantages of his creation are that MS Paint is already present on many systems by default and that it is a lightweight and robust program. In addition, according to him, the advantage is that images of the code are easy to share.