com_wrapper should return THANDLE(s) instead of manually refcounted objects

[anporumb]

It is all nice when the vtbl has AddRef and Release, but here the proposal is to remove those and have com_wrapper return a THANDLE.

The benefit here is that a THANDLE has "forced" semantics, while a IUnknown has "by convention and good attention of developer" semantics.

[dcristoloveanu]

This would be a very nice addition.
Maybe it could even be done as a layer over the existing COM wrapper - so if you really want the COM "experience" then go for it, otherwise, THANDLE is clearly superior!