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Talent pool How many people are proficient enough in C nowadays to maintain the old shell?

• frumplestlatz 1y ago
  It’s the world’s most popular desktop operating system. They can afford to hire capable software engineers.
  • pjmlp 1y ago
    As if, see recent offshoring issues with US software delivery.
  • qcnguy 1y ago
    They can afford it but it probably won't increase Windows revenue, which is anyway only ~10% of their income. If they could make upgrades that people would pay $$$ for like in the Win95 days they'd be motivated to try but desktop OS is a mature segment, and people expect updates to be free now, so it kills the incentives to do anything.
• BobaFloutist 1y ago
  Surely if Microsoft was consistently hiring devs proficient in C, there would be more devs proficient in C, no?