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> And yeah, thanks to those folks, the Linux Kernel Security summit will have plenty of material for future conferences.

In the meantime, did you find a memory leak in my code? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21275440

Not that I want to vehemently disagree with your security statements, but I think I'd love to have a little bit more "show" and less "tell". That also applies to showing practicality of managed languages, practicality of 90's business software development (C++/COM), practicality of dead commercial languages (Delphi + VCL).

Giving just endless lists of ancient buzzwords doesn't help.

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It is coming for sure, I have not forgoten about it, I just have a private life to take care of, you know?

Regarding show, don't tell.

The 21st century React Native for Windows is written on top of COM/C++,

https://github.com/microsoft/react-native-windows

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUMWFExtDSg

We are having a Delphi conference in upcoming weeks, https://entwickler-konferenz.de/, and it gets regularly featured on the German press, https://www.dotnetpro.de/delphi-959606.html.

> It is coming for sure, I have not forgoten about it, I just have a private life to take care of, you know?

I was thinking you'd look at it before writing your next 25 comments, but it seems I was wrong. So I'll just wait, it's fine.

> The 21st century React Native for Windows is written on top of COM/C++

From a skim I could find exactly zero mentions of COM/C++ stuff in there. Sure, this RN might sit on a pile of stuff that has COM buried underneath. That doesn't mean that COM is a necessity to do this React stuff, and not even that it's a good design from a developer's perspective.

You give zero ideas what's a good idea about COM. Just buzzwords and links to stuff and more stuff, with no relation obvious to me.

If you actually have to go through the whole COM boilerplate and the abominations to build a project with COM, just to connect to a service, because some people thought it wasn't necessary to provide a simple API (connect()/disconnect()/read_next_event()) then the whole thing isn't so funny anymore.

ReactNative for Windows uses WinUI and XAML Islands, which is UWP, aka COM.

I really don't know what kind of COM you have been writing, because COM from VCL, MFC, ATL, UWP, Delphi, .NET surely doesn't fulfill that description.

As for what COM is good for,

"Component Software: Beyond Object-Oriented Programming"

https://www.amazon.com/Component-Software-Object-Oriented-Pr...

Maybe I was unclear, but it was a C++ program (dealing with macros, as I said - VARIANTS and DISP_IDs and PROPERTIES and stuff). No joy to use.

As for other languages, I haven't touched COM at all but the idea of making GUIDs for stuff and registering components in the operating system doesn't seem a good default approach to me. Pretty sure it's more reliable to link object files together by default, so you can control and change what you get without the bureaucracy of versioning, etc.

> ReactNative for Windows uses WinUI and XAML Islands, which is UWP, aka COM.

Is the fact that COM is buried under this pile more than an unfortunate implementation detail?

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