What coding language is silverlight itself written in?

does anyone out there know what coding l开发者_StackOverflow社区anguage silverlight itself is written in; C++, C#?

It depends on what you mean by "Silverlight itself". Much of it - including the BCL - is managed code. Lower-level components - including the CLR - are unmanaged.

Silverlight is written in C++ for cross platform compatibility.

It's probably written in C/C++, given that it's a browser plugin.

(Doing a scan of the binaries in /Library/Internet Plug-Ins/Silverlight.plugin on my mac reveals a lot of libs with C linkage, which implement the minimal CLR required for code to run on top of Silverlight, but the plugin itself seems to be written in C/C++)

There are still managed libraries in the plugin bundle, as you'd imagine since it needs to be able to execute CLR assemblies, but it's unclear how much of the actual plugin logic is written on top of the mini-CLR provided.