On: A Generation Lost in the Bazaar (2012)

[pjmlp]

> The modern equivalent of COM is the JVM and it works wildly better, even if you look at the messy neglected bits (like serialisation and RPC).

Actually it is the WinRT introduced in Windows 8.

[mike_hearn → pjmlp]

Well yes, except adoption of WinRT in industry appears to be zero.

[pjmlp → mike_hearn]

Well, except that is the only way forward for new Windows applications, even classical Win32 is being coerced into it via Project Centipede.

[flukus → pjmlp]

New windows application that only target windows 10+. Backwards compatibility is a major limit to it's adoption.