Yup I mentioned Microsoft COM (which Mozilla's defunct XPCOM was modelled after). Shared libraries and binary interfaces, rather than C header files. Come to

Yup I mentioned Microsoft COM (which Mozilla's defunct XPCOM was modelled after). Shared libraries and binary interfaces, rather than C header files. Come to think of it I'd like to see a postmortem on XPCOM. Chrome uses apparently uses more of a build time tool to generate interfaces in both C++ and JavaScript.