Linked by Eugenia Loli on Tue 14th Feb 2006 19:06 UTC

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2005-07-11
but I found COM to be a clunky thing. I had to beat my head against a wall for over a year and a half dealing with it. It's OK if you are doing simple stuff, but anything that involves events coming back from COM for instance gets a little more interesting.
From what I can see, COM was created to give C and C++ (and others) a way to dynamically bind to objects. If you use a language like Objective-C (there are lots of others) you don't have this problem as binding to objects dynamically is their bread and butter. Everything feels a lot more natural.
My advice (esp. if you are using Linux) would be to check out a language that natively does this first.