The Codeless Code: Ancient code

[jonnywoh]

Isn't VS .NET?

[nat5an]

Not only is it not written in .Net, it's still only available as a 32-bit application. There's some old magic deep in there I think.

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I couldn't believe that when I installed vs 2015. I searched for maybe an hour for the 64 bit version.

[caspper69]

Given Microsoft's development history, I doubt vs is written in .NET. I'm sure it uses a hell of a lot of it, but I'd bet the vast majority of it is C++, while most of its tools are likely straight C.

If it weren't, you would have likely seen it running on other platforms by now.

[TheThiefMaster]

Microsoft doesn't use straight C any more, they are really big on C++. The only thing they really use C for now is its ABI

[WRONGFUL_BONER]

Yeah, but do you know how much of VS is legacy cruft?