Comment by mamp
8 hours ago
I've never heard of anyone calling SOM 'better' at anything this century. I came across it when it was the foundation for OpenDoc at Apple, your comment brought back many bad memories
8 hours ago
I've never heard of anyone calling SOM 'better' at anything this century. I came across it when it was the foundation for OpenDoc at Apple, your comment brought back many bad memories
Compared with COM's design, it was much better.
Classes and metaclasses sound like architecture astronomy here. COM is fundamentally just a standard ABI and a way to look up DLL paths in the registry. There are more layers on top of that, but that's the basics and all you need for a plugin architecture.