COM is not windows specific any more! Or rather there is a portable COM-like thing which looks like a good fit for cross language development https://github.com

COM is not windows specific any more! Or rather there is a portable COM-like thing which looks like a good fit for cross language development https://github.com/Microsoft/xlang https://github.com/Microsoft/xlang It's from the team who delivered cppwinrt (aka moderncpp). So the C++ projection doesn't have all the nasty baggage one usually associates with COM. https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/mt745094.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396 https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/mt745094.aspx?f=25...