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Re:Apple ExtensionKit by kennywinker on Monday October 31, 2022 @06:13PM (#33414039)
Ah, yeah, that's an interesting distinction I hadn't thought of. Any idea what the first example of that type of extension was? My gut says that'd still been done long before android
Re:Apple ExtensionKit by dwaite on Monday October 31, 2022 @06:23PM (#33414155)
IPC has been a systems feature for a while, but discovery is a higher level thing needed for this sort of plugin interface. COM and CORBA are ancestors I know about.