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ghostly_syesterday at 3:36 PM1 replyview on HN

Are you thinking this augurs more interoperability features in C?


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pjmlpyesterday at 3:38 PM

Why should it?

COM and WinRT (basically COM Next) are the way to do cross language Interoperability in Windows since VB 5 replaced VBX with OCX, it was a key feature in .NET Framework design, and revamped on Windows 8, when WinRT was introduced as the original design for .NET (Ext-VOS).

https://arstechnica.com/features/2012/10/windows-8-and-winrt...

See windows-rs crate.