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direwolf20yesterday at 8:56 PM1 replyview on HN

COM was designed to be compatible with C. Linux games are also often written in C++. The ones written in C are just old.


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jiggawattsyesterday at 9:35 PM

Sure, but in practice COM is almost never used from C programs unless there is some integration into a very legacy codebase. Games are newly developed, they’re not enterprise database platforms.

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