What programming language is Ubuntu Terminal written in?

This may seem like a very rookie question for you Linux-users, but I just started using Linux. Thanks.

2 Answers

gnome-terminal, the standard terminal in Ubuntu, is mainly written in C.

You can see the source code here.

The Ubuntu Terminal app, which is/will be used in Unity8 (eg. Ubuntu Phone), is developed at

On this page is states the languages used are:

QML, JavaScript, C++