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> while Windows still uses primarily uses C or C++. Do you have data for that? My impression is that a large fraction of Windows development is C# these days.
by munificent 2y ago
> while Windows still uses primarily uses C or C++.
Do you have data for that? My impression is that a large fraction of Windows development is C# these days. Back when I was at EA, nearly fifteen years ago, we were already leaning very heavily towards C# for internal tools.
- tsujamin 2y agoLinking to my thread from yesterday, there’s definitely memory safe systems programming happening over there: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41642788 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41642788
- pjmlp 2y agoWinDev culture is largely C++ and they aren't in any rush to change that, other than some incremental use of Rust. WinRT is basically COM and C++, nowadays they focus on C# as consumer language, mostly because after killing C++/CX, they never improved the C++/WinRT developer experience since 2016, and only Windows teams use it, while the few folks that still believe WinUI has any future rather reach out for C#. If you want to see big chuncks of C# adoption you have to look into business units under Azure org chart.