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> I don't think you're suggesting we serialize the entire GUI?

Yup that's exactly what people do in some GUIs. Tons of GUI frameworks and systems rely on varying degrees of defunctionalization and serialization. Microsoft COM and XServer for example. I don't know exactly how granular they get but I believe it's quite granular in what you can do over RPC.



I thought COM was a way to talk between applications/libraries, not between GUI elements?

Message passing at that level is fine IMO, but between GUI views/controllers sounds like a bad tradeoff though.


I thought it did both but I could be totally mistaken.




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