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For quite some time, the .NET field had the upper hand and VC++ was left with a small team mainly dedicated to bug fixing.

When the going native turnaround came about, they started staffing the compiler team again, but it does take years to recover what the .NET has enjoyed in the meantime.

On the other side, the going native also seems to affect .NET side, with AOT compilation for WP8 and the new JIT/NGEN compilers being developed for the next release.