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Re:Swift Achieved Dynamic Linking Where Rust Couldn't by pjmlp on Monday January 30, 2023 @07:42AM (#34578919)
They make a point of having most of their software built with COM as ABI for native APIs, however COM roots are in DCE/RPC and IBM's OS/2 SOM.

COM has plenty of use nowadays for Windows developers, as it is the main way to expose Windows APIs since Vista.

WinDev has picked the .NET ideas for Longhorn and redone them as COM/WinRT.

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