Microsoft and the UWP for Enterprise Delusion

Re:Microsoft and the UWP for Enterprise Delusion by copper_think on Wednesday January 17, 2018 @07:41AM (#16167404)

You're both right. Yes, it's WPF, and there are lots of parts written in C#. But the parent is right -- Visual Studio is C++ using COM and Win32 at its core, going back all the way to the Visual Basic IDE that shipped as part of Visual Studio 6. It would be a very difficult port to Mac, Linux, etc. As of this writing there is even no 64-bit version for Windows (although that's just a matter of spending the time and money to do it.)

The brand name has been re-used for other software. Visual Studio for Mac is Xamarin. Visual Studio Code is on the Electron platform.

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Re:Microsoft and the UWP for Enterprise Delusion by chrisbennet on Thursday January 18, 2018 @03:38AM (#16175593)

Surprisingly, the lack of a 64 bit version is a performance choice.

”For a long time now developers have been asking why Visual Studio hasn’t made to switch to 64-bit. Rather than effort or opportunity cost, the primary reason is performance.” https://www.infoq.com/news/2016/01/VS-64-bit

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