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<p>Windows 8 introduced the Windows Runtime, which at its heart, is just COM with a few more conventions thrown in to make language bindings appear more seamless. The <a href="https://crates.io/crates/windows">windows</a> crate already makes calling COM APIs far more seamless than it is for C++ developers, but WinRT goes further by providing first-class support for modeling things like constructors, events, and class hierarchies. In <a href="calling-your-first-com-api.html">calling your first COM API</