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> C ABI library protocols, and offered stdio and socket interfaces to them, then suddenly the landscape of possibilities in software composition would be way b
by mickeyp 3y ago
> C ABI library protocols, and offered stdio and socket interfaces to them, then suddenly the landscape of possibilities in software composition would be way broader
You've just invented a rudimentary and worse version of COM. (There are advantages in not limiting yourself to low-level tooling like ptys/pipes/sockets.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Component_Object_Model https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Component_Object_Model
- binary132 3y agoWhat is worse about native C FFI and structs-as-messages socket protocols as compared to the malebolge of Windows APIs?
- fwip 3y agoCOM, the interface, is not the same as the conglomeration of Windows APIs. A web-dev example might be that CSS, the language design, is not the same as the ever-growing and inconsistent set of properties that the browser uses to style documents.