Comment by WorldMaker
5 days ago
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.
5 days ago
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.
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.