(www.irfanview.com)

520 points omnibrain | 1 comments | 30 Mar 24 13:56 UTC | HN request time: 0.226s | source

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andsoitis ◴[30 Mar 24 18:43 UTC] No.39877477[source]▶

Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IrfanView

Does anyone know what programming language it is made with? I did a cursory search but cannot find any information. Just curious.

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copperx ◴[30 Mar 24 18:47 UTC] No.39877516[source]▶

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I don't know for sure, but C++ is always a good guess with that kind of software.

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rav ◴[30 Mar 24 19:38 UTC] No.39877906[source]▶

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I downloaded IrfanView and ran "strings" on the exe file, and one of the strings in there is "Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library" - so that would point towards C++ (although it's not certain from that alone).

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1. ninkendo ◴[30 Mar 24 21:06 UTC] No.39878669[source]▶

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Yeah, Irfanview dates to a time when MS’s C compiler was horribly out of date (still stuck in C89 compatibility), and the only way to get remotely modern language features was to compile it as C++, even if you never used any C++ features. Everyone was programming in “C++” on windows back then even if they were basically writing C.

So yeah, it’s C++ but that doesn’t necessarily tell you much, it could still very well be basically C.

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