Fragile ABI

[Kagamin]

On Tuesday, 21 August 2012 at 15:15:02 UTC, David Piepgrass wrote:
> Finally, it's Windows-only (although it has been reimplemented 
> on Linux, e.g. for WINE) and modules must be registered in the 
> Windows Registry.

Conceptually COM is just a set of ideas for interoperable 
component design, which happens to actually work across languages 
and frameworks: .net, C, C++, Delphi, D. Registry works only as a 
centralized repository of components which is needed if you want 
to plug arbitrary components into your system, it has nothing to 
do with the problem of fragile ABI.