# Borland C++ 2.0 Compiler Source Reconstructed > Source: > Published: 2026-11-14 03:00:44+00:00 As the successor to Turbo C++, Borland C++ was a staple of professional IDEs for C and C++ development, starting with the initial 2.0 release in 1991. Being a commercial project the original source code for the toolchains were naturally not made available by Borland, but thanks to the efforts of [Abedegno] we have now got what [is claimed to be a byte-perfect recreation](https://github.com/abedegno/borland-reborn), in the sense that the binaries compiled using the toolchain are identical to the original toolchain. The process of creating the source from the original toolchain binaries is detailed in a [separate document](https://github.com/abedegno/borland-reborn/blob/main/docs/HOW-IT-WORKS.md), including the use of [Abedgno]’s Claude Code-based [Exhume](https://github.com/abedegno/Exhume) tool to assist in the effort. Having the source code for BC++ 2.0 available is probably most useful for projects that deal with DOS-based software from the same era, as well as for purely historic interest reason. When BC++ 2.0 was released, the C programming language had only just seen itself standardized in the form of C89, and C++’s initial standard in 1998 was still years away. Thanks to [Stephen Walters] for the tip.