The COM side rant is still relevant today. All of the UWP framework for "modern Windows Store apps" is built on top of COM. It's like a time warp. The JavaScrip

The COM side rant is still relevant today. All of the UWP framework for "modern Windows Store apps" is built on top of COM. It's like a time warp. The JavaScript and .NET SDKs for UWP apps are just wrappers around what is really a COM API. Often you are dealing with low level `COMException` exceptions (in .NET land) for things that the .NET SDK hasn't got a contingency for.