When will web browsers be complete?

Re:When will web browsers be complete? by SCHiM on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @06:55AM (#24917338)

This still exists! COM serves as the foundation of modern windows apps you currently see on Windows 10 (WinRT). And still actively developed in its form as WinRT.

COM sadly has a number of unfortunate characteristics though: it's quite complex to learn and it's not very secure actually (de-serialization of complex types in C anyone?)

But I think it's a wonderful technology.

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Re:When will web browsers be complete? by TeMPOraL on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @06:57AM (#24917351)

I'm currently having an opportunity to learn it, as I need to interface with a piece of legacy software that works over DCOM. I thought this would be a nightmare, as all my previous brief encounters with COM/DCOM left a bad taste (obscure errors full of GUIDs, registry hacking), but now that I'm actually trying to learn what the thing is, I'm becoming more and more in awe of it.

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