Re: [Haskell-cafe] Tools for Haskell and COM

Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:

The biggest Haskell/COM project I know of was Krasimir’s implementation of Visual Haskell, which was a plug-in for Visual Studio. The VS interfaces are COM ones, so he had to do lots of COM stuff. He may be able to help you. Sigbjorn Finne knows a lot about HDirect, but he’s really busy with his day job at Galois!

There’s a bit of a chicken-and-egg problem here; the COM tools are not well maintained, so that discourages use, which in turn makes it less rewarding to work on them. What I don’t know is the level of suppressed demand: if there were good tools, would lots of people start using them?

Simon

Is now a bad time to say "what is COM?"?