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		DonHopkins on Jan 26, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Mozilla Is Hiring a Developer to Work on Thunderbi... How was XPCOM better than MS COM? Feature set? Nope. Tooling? Nope. Language support? Nope. Ecosystem? Nope. OLE components? Nope. Distributed COM? Nope. Doesn't trigger knee-jerk anti-Microsoft reactionaries even though it's a shallow clone of Microsoft technology? Check. Did you know that "decomification" was a word? https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=194385

tomc1985 on Jan 28, 2018 [–]

XPCOM was better mainly because it was Mozilla docs instead of Microsoft. I was doing MS COM in a previous job and I swear MSDN is written in sanskrit

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