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		WorldMaker 6 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: COM Like a Bomb: Rust Outlook Add-in WinRT is certainly not a "clean slate design", but still a useful comparison to see where Microsoft themselves iterated on the COM design with decades of hindsight.

pjmlp 5 days ago [–]

Pity that the great tooling that came with it is now gone, alongside UWP.

WinRT tooling on Win32 side is a bad joke.

I almost lost count of how many COM frameworks have come and gone since OLE 1.0 days.

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