Re:Ollama is now available on Windows in preview
by bri3d on Saturday February 17, 2024 @10:04PM
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Are you not familiar with out of process COM servers? A lot of Office automation is out of process, even inside of Office itself. Admittedly I’m not sure about the grammar checker specifically.
Anyway, my point still stands - building desktop apps using composition over RPC is neither new nor a bad idea, although HTTP might not be the best RPC mechanism (although… neither was COM…)
As for the Spellcheck API, external providers are explicitly out of proc: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/intl/about-t...
Anyway, my point still stands - building desktop apps using composition over RPC is neither new nor a bad idea, although HTTP might not be the best RPC mechanism (although… neither was COM…)