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Re:WASM by Example by rpeden on Wednesday November 15, 2023 @06:29PM (#38283907)
It's awesome, but also funny that we're using WASM to reinvent COM 30 years later.

And that's not a knock on WASM. It's just that COM was pretty neat for it's time, even if it was sometimes painful in practice.

But I find it pretty nifty that I can still take a COM library written in one language and then import and use it in C++, C#, Python, Ruby, JavaScript, or Racket (and plenty of others - those are just the ones I've used COM libraries with.)

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Re:WASM by Example by pjmlp on Thursday November 16, 2023 @07:09AM (#38288567)
COM is pretty much presence tense, it being the main Windows ABI since Windows Vista adopted Longhorn ideas into COM/C++ instead of .NET.

The tooling could have been improved, but I guess WinDev really loves their baroque tools.

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Re:WASM by Example by theta_d on Friday November 17, 2023 @10:02AM (#38304495)
1998 was the pinnacle of software development. VB6 composing off the shelf COM components purchased form a catalog sent in the physical mail.

Desktop apps were still a thing. The web was simple. ASP or some CGI scripts. Perfection.

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