Our aim is to offer an Eiffel development environment as easy to use as Smalltalk and as safe as Eiffel. Since version -0.82, SmallEiffel has been promoted by the Free Software Foundation the official GNU Eiffel Compiler.
Version numbering uses negative numbers.
Since it is the GNU Eiffel Compiler, the complete source code of SmallEiffel is of course in the distribution. The source code for additional libraries is also provided. It is very possible to use SmallEiffel for a large application. An Eiffel compiler is a really big project and SmallEiffel itself is fully written in Eiffel. SmallEiffel is completely free and any private compagny can use SmallEiffel freely, and distribute freely the products made with it.