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Unfortunately COM was never OS independent so that kind of killed it off. It was also runtime instead of compile-time.
by mlindner 6y ago
Unfortunately COM was never OS independent so that kind of killed it off. It was also runtime instead of compile-time.
- pjmlp 6y agoWhy the past tense? COM is alive and well, being the way the large majority of Windows APIs get introduced since Vista. While COM is Windows specific, other implementations with similar ideas do exist. IBM and Unisys mainframe language environment, gRPC, D-Bus, XPCOM, SOM, Android IPC, Fuschia IPC.