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ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

Will this finally be the end of Windows?

Also fun fact: Windows uses a lot of COM Interfaces for API, which in my opinion often makes developing for Windows a better experience, than developing for Linux. Rust does not have anything OOP related by default, and are often emulated with macros instead, like in C.

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SuperSpruce@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
I work for a company developing software for Windows and deal with COM all the time. How do you communicate across dynamic libraries and languages in Linux?

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- ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Linux usually just uses C API, most of which reads horribly. Libevdev is quite notorious for using files and the docs not telling you that the reading is blocking. Some additional things use C++ classes though.
  
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  - SuperSpruce@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Could you provide a link to the documentation? It’s strange that it’s so barebones.
    
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    ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    www.freedesktop.org/software/libevdev/…/latest/
    
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HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Rust has traits and reference counting which map nicely to COM objects.

By the way, the Linux Kernel is OOP. That’s a good choice for things like queues, file systems, and device drivers.

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nialv7@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
That’s a crazy take. I hate com and oop with a passion.

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- ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  I hate everything GTK/GNOME, they didn’t even call it gnobject.
  
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