logoalt Hacker News

pjmlptoday at 6:33 AM1 replyview on HN

Compared with COM's design, it was much better.


Replies

mitxelatoday at 12:42 PM

Classes and metaclasses sound like architecture astronomy here. COM is fundamentally just a standard ABI and a way to look up DLL paths in the registry. There are more layers on top of that, but that's the basics and all you need for a plugin architecture.

show 1 reply