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Re:Hot Reloading in Swift by ChrisMarshallNY on Thursday July 14, 2022 @09:07PM (#32103404)
> resumable software components as black boxes that you could buy off the shelf and integrate in your own products.

Wasn't that one of the goals of CORBA? [D]COM?

I know it was one of the lynchpins of OpenDoc, but that took it even farther, with a document-centric approach to applications.

Re:Hot Reloading in Swift by pjmlp on Friday July 15, 2022 @02:29AM (#32105237)
It was, and COM is pretty much alive on Windows as its main "modern" API (in quotes because VS tooling keeps lacking versus Borland/CodeGear tooling, despite its relevance on Windows APIs).