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		mumblemumble on Nov 16, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Selecting a programming language can be a form of ... WinRT is an interesting thing on that front, though I am not aware of a non-Windows equivalent, and so it's never really going to see much open source adoption, let alone support on other platforms.

twic on Nov 16, 2021 [–]

Back in the '90s, when we still remembered how to dream, we had CORBA.

CORBA got a lot of bad press, but towards the end, it was actually pretty decent. Certainly the best way to do the thing it was trying to do!

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