[pjmlp]

Did you ever used SOM?

To this day it still seems it had a much better approach to components development and related tooling, than even COM reboot as WinRT offers.

[spinningslate]

Yes! Fond memories. I put it firmly in the Betamax category: superior technology that lost out for political/marketing reasons.

[homarp]

for those curious about SOM OS/2 Technical Library: System Object Model Guide and Reference

https://archive.org/details/os2-2.0-som-1991