alt Hacker NewsNice idea, although it is still slower than COM.
COM can run over the network (DCOM), inside the same computer on its own process (out-proc), inside the client (in-proc), designed for in-proc but running as out-proc (COM host).
So for max performance, with the caveat of possibly damaging the host, in-proc will do it, and be faster than any kind of sockets.
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merb • 11/21/2024
Well if you need ipc to connect different languages, you will stay away from COM. Heck once you use anything but rust,c or c++ you should drop com. Even dotnet support for com is aweful. And if you ever written a outlook addin, than you will start hating com by yourself, thanks to god that Microsoft is going away from that
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> COM can run over the network (DCOM)
Ah the good ol' Blaster worm...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaster_(computer_worm)