I had a look at it, looks like another inconsistent pile of unsafe C crap stirre...

pjmlp · on Sept 16, 2021

Windows is a mix of legacy C code, which started to be migrated into C++ around the Vista time (hence /kernel in VC++) and .NET/COM (WinRT is basically COM with some extras).

Modern kernel code makes use of WIL.

https://github.com/microsoft/wil

jcelerier · on Sept 16, 2021

> around the Vista time

I remember stumbling on the win 3.11 sources on github at some point, C++ was already used back then

pjmlp · on Sept 16, 2021

For what would be "userspace" yes, but they were crazy enough to still do COM in C, given that by Windows 95 C++ was still unwelcomed on the kernel.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20210824-00/?p=10...