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It kind of is legacy. Yes, lower-level modern APIs are written in it, but you can write a modern windows GUI app without really needing to touch COM directly b

by imron 4y ago

It kind of is legacy. Yes, lower-level modern APIs are written in it, but you can write a modern windows GUI app without really needing to touch COM directly because there are other abstractions built on those APIs. This was not as true of Windows programming 20 years ago.

pjmlp 4y ago
As someone that does Windows since version 3.0 I am quite curious what those would be. Forms and WPF? Forms is in maintainance mode, and WPF builds on top of COM via DirectX 9. MFC? Likewise maintainance mode. WinRT and UWP/WinUI 2.0? COM + IInspectable + .NET metadata + AppSandboxing WinUI 3.0? COM + IInspectable + .NET metadata MAUI? Built on top of WinUI 3.0
- imron 4y ago
  Not sure how this disagrees with my statement that "you can write a modern windows GUI app without really needing to touch COM directly because there are other abstractions built on those APIs"
  - pjmlp 4y ago
    It is like turtles but COM.
    - imron 4y ago
      Glad we agree then that it permeates the lower levels of windows programming.