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Visual Studio for Windows is written in C# with WPF, but your point is still valid since they are two different codebases
by Kipters 10y ago
Visual Studio for Windows is written in C# with WPF, but your point is still valid since they are two different codebases
- ygra 10y agoVisual Studio for Windows is mostly C++, plus a lot of other things. Heck, there's JavaScript in there, too.
- Kipters 10y agoIt used to, they moved to WPF with Visual Studio 2010, now it's mostly WPF with some legacy parts that are still in C++
- satysin 10y agoAFAIK the editor (shell) is WPF (C#?) but the internals are still mostly C++/Win32.
- Kipters 10y agoSeems plausible, I don't know enough details to argue this.
- int_19h 10y agoThe shell still has a lot of C++ in it, yes (but also a lot of C#). But the shell is a relatively small part of the entire IDE - the bulk of it is the extensions that actually provide support for various languages and technologies. Those also have some C++, either as legacy code, or because the team just preferred it, but by now C# is definitely the majority of it, and it keeps trending in that direction. A lot of it can be very non-obvious and defying common sense. For example, if you take VS 2013 (pre-Roslyn), the C++ project system was written entirely in C#, while the C# project system was written mostly in C++.
- Kipters 10y agoEven in the .NET Core world, the managed runtime is written in C++, the native runtime (for .NET Native) is written in C#.