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This takes me back! I was a COM expert in the late 90's/early aughts. It was important technology to master for building desktop applications for Windows. Nowa
by taylodl 6y ago
This takes me back! I was a COM expert in the late 90's/early aughts. It was important technology to master for building desktop applications for Windows.
Nowadays we don't typically build desktop applications and even when we do we typically employ cross-platform technologies. So COM has pretty much fallen by the wayside - which isn't a bad thing! We've moved on.
- mattgreenrocks 6y agoThe idea of an app being a graph of polyglot components lives on, however, in the guise of microservices. The good part is you know everything exists out of process and you don't have to worry about things like COM's threading apartment. The bad thing is, of course, everything is out of process. Everything old is new again.