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billmcneale | 8 months ago

Microsoft introduced this in Windows in 1993, it's called COM and is still in (heavy) use today.

It basically powers all inter communication in Windows.

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vaxman|8 months ago

Not really. COM/OLE is a different paradigm, their answer to an infamous vaporware called Taligent/OpenDoc that bankrupted many developers. Microsoft was sort of stuck with that security nightmare though

billmcneale|8 months ago

COM is exactly what OP was talking about.

Apps can expose endpoints that can be listed, and external processes can call these endpoints.