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Microsoft COM? It’s the foundation for a lot of the Windows API and was explicitly designed to be usable from non-C languages.

• anfilt 4y ago
  COM! Have you ever tried interacting without some automated tooling or language support! It's horrible and verbose. When it comes to setting up everything to interact with COM, I feel likely I would be more productive in assembly. Although at least a lot of it can be setup with automated tooling. Although the interface seems to also have a lot more overhead than a basic function call. I hardly would call it a better situation.
  • pavlov 4y ago
    I certainly didn’t claim COM is an improvement! But it seems to match what the commenter was asking for, in intent anyway.
  • pjmlp 4y ago
    That is the whole point, you are not supposed to code COM like in the old OLE 2.0 days, although the tooling could have been much better by now.