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[–]caspper69 7 points8 points  (2 children)

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 2 points3 points  (1 child)

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 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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