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by imron 1235 days ago
It kind of is legacy.

Yes, lower-level modern APIs are written in it, but you can write a modern windows GUI app without really needing to touch COM directly because there are other abstractions built on those APIs.

This was not as true of Windows programming 20 years ago.
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pjmlp 1235 days ago
As someone that does Windows since version 3.0 I am quite curious what those would be.

Forms and WPF?

Forms is in maintainance mode, and WPF builds on top of COM via DirectX 9.

MFC?

Likewise maintainance mode.

WinRT and UWP/WinUI 2.0?

COM + IInspectable + .NET metadata + AppSandboxing

WinUI 3.0?

COM + IInspectable + .NET metadata

MAUI?

Built on top of WinUI 3.0

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imron 1235 days ago
Not sure how this disagrees with my statement that "you can write a modern windows GUI app without really needing to touch COM directly because there are other abstractions built on those APIs"
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pjmlp 1235 days ago
It is like turtles but COM.
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imron 1235 days ago
Glad we agree then that it permeates the lower levels of windows programming.
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