Plugins mostly created with C++ instead of delphi

[ghisler(Author)]

Many plugins are from third parties, and they use their preferred languages.

Some of my plugins are in Delphi (e.g. makebat, diskdir), others are in C/C++ because I had some sample code to start with, or I'm using libraries. For example, for WebDAV I'm using the "expat" C library to parse the xml returned by the server.

[Balderstrom]

Wouldn't you want to go with Visual Studio Community 2013? which is free.

[ghisler(Author)]

I'm mainly using Visual Studio 6 for 32-bit plugins, and Visual Studio 2005 for 64-bit plugins (because I actually bought these versions). Im only using VS6 because it creates the smallest dlls.