Real Basic/Xojo for Windows and its IDE

Targets Windows
1

Which development environment (programming language) was used please, to create the Windows version of the RealBasic/Xojo and its IDE?

2

Its really not that different from how you’d write an application using Xojo

The IDE is written primarily in Xojo + some custom plugins we wrote for our use
Plugins are written in C++ using Visual Studio
Parts of the frameworks you use are written in Xojo and other parts in C++
The compiler is written in C++

3

Thank you.

And the compiler and all the other code apart from the IDE please, that is part of the RealBasic/Xojo for Windows?

4

Its all one big package.
You really can’t have the IDE without the compiler and the compiler is dependent on the IDE.
Everything is dependent on other pieces so its a whole product.

5

Pardon my curiosity - what functionality did you need to encapsulate into a plugin? Just interested to hear about your experience eating your own dog food. :slight_smile:

6

The compiler is written in C++ - its just better suited to that task
So it’s a plugin from the perspective of the IDE

7

Thank you.

Which C++ development environment (on Windows?) please?

8

You could probably guess by looking at our plugin examples which are all for Visual Studio on Windows

9

Thank you.