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by tarranoth
1308 days ago
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COM as far as I used it was always this incredibly opaque thing that no one understood. The only good thing is that you could generate C# code in visual studio for it, but the generated stuff is barely understandable and versioning with COM is another big issue. |
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The good thing is that in dynamic languages (VBScript, Python, PowerShell) you can instantiate COM objects and call their methods in a couple of lines. I have never held the "oh but COM is badly designed and complicated inside" complaint in high regard, because the alternatives are either: it should be easy for programmers and if it's hard for users who cares, which is worse, or if it's not easy for programmers it shouldn't exist at all, which is also worse.