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COM is kind of like GObject and something like it has a place. COM usage is fairly limited because using it easily requires compiler support, which only very r
by snagglegaggle 7y ago
COM is kind of like GObject and something like it has a place.
COM usage is fairly limited because using it easily requires compiler support, which only very recently was included in the Community editions of Visual Studio. You can also access COM via language bindings; most .NET code you write is COM-enabled, for example, and is accessed from non-CLR code as COM. MinGW has stuff that lets you use and generate COM classes, but it's not great. Improving it would help FOSS dev on Windows.
There are other languages that use COM also. The lead designer of Delphi was poached by Microsoft to design .NET.
- pjmlp 7y agoAnders went to Microsoft to design J++. .NET only came up a couple of years later and as follow up on Sun's lawsuit. Ext-VOS design document clearly refers to Java and J++. Secondly, I have been developing for Windows since Windows 3.0 and wonder which compiler support features do you mean. Even the old express editions had the required Windows SDK tooling for COM.
- snagglegaggle 7y agoNo, guy I'm thinking of was hired on about the time .NET was being started. This was after Borland. The tools may have just been for COM object generation. I found the option to generate COM code in VS2017 one day, followed up on it, and found it was the first time they had been released. The bare headers were always there but the code generators were not, at least in most current releases.
- pjmlp 7y agoIt was certainly Anders, no idea about whom you are talking about. https://www.welcometothejungle.co/en/articles/anders-hejlsberg-microsoft-career https://www.welcometothejungle.co/en/articles/anders-hejlsbe... Again, I never had to enable anything on VS to generate COM components.