> All that is a roundabout way of saying: for god's sake write your system APIs in C. No. Use an IDL to define component interfaces and a generator for any par

> All that is a roundabout way of saying: for god's sake write your system APIs in C. No. Use an IDL to define component interfaces and a generator for any particular language. That's how C++ components interoperate on Windows. (COM is just a formalization of vtables generated from an IDL file and compiled with midl compiler.)