Comment by reactordev
6 days ago
OMG could you imagine writing MMC snap-ins using some sort of plugin declspec import bs in C++? .Net and reflection with Assembly.Load saves so much time and effort to build modular “ship it now, deliver features later, extend it if we fall behind” apps. Not that those are good things, it just means you can defer until your MS PM gets the budget to fill those backfill positions that have been open for 12 months because the hiring bar is astrophysics
I can, because due to Windows team love for COM and C++, many extension points require doing exactly that.
Want to extend the context menu actions, or add new thumbnail capabilities for a recent file format?
It is exactly that.
Even with WinRT Runtime Components, they were doing in a way that some APIs were only surfaced when using the components from C++.
Quite a different approach from OS / language teams at Apple and Google, where productivity with better languages has a priority no matter what.