Is Doom Builder 2 Development Discontinued?

[NiTROACTiVE]

I noticed that Doom Builder 2 hasn't been updated since June 1, 2012, but the website for it is still up. I've used Doom Builder 2 since 2011, and I remember working on my first Doom WAD with it. With all of these forks such as Doom Builder X and GZDoom Builder, I wonder what the future of DB2 will be. I also notice that @CodeImp is still active on these forums, so I wonder what they would say on this matter.

[hella knight]

Haha....yes.

DBX is the future of DB2 :)

[Dark Pulse]

Quite dead. Its successors are DBX (as mentioned) and GZDoom Builder Bugfix (which itself is a fork of GZDoom Builder, which was forked off Doom Builder 2).

[Gez]

CodeImp reappeared recently, yeah; but that was after a five-year leave of absence.

[CountArchvile]

Never heard of Doom Builder X It sounds neat.

[Empyre]

13 hours ago, CountArchvile said:

Never heard of Doom Builder X It sounds neat.

 

[riderr3]

I wonder did Romero still use DB2. His new mapset is on the way.

[Dark Pulse]

28 minutes ago, riderr3 said:

I wonder did Romero still use DB2. His new mapset is on the way.

Since he plays on GZDoom, it wouldn't surprise me if he used GZDoom Builder or GZDBBF. 

[CodeImp]

On 1/13/2019 at 10:07 AM, Gez said:

CodeImp reappeared recently, yeah; but that was after a five-year leave of absence.

The term I believe is "lurking". I don't read everything unless tagged, actually pretty much only that. DB2 development is indeed discontinued. If I wanted to work on it, I would probably rewrite it again because I would (again) design the internal workings completely different. But this time there wouldn't be any significant new features from a user perspective, so it's not worth it. The forks are doing a good job of adding the sourceport-specific features (and also cluttering the user interface a lot) so everyone is happy.