CORBA's IDL was great; we're using a home grown variant for C++/C#/Java/JS interop, and it's much, much better than SWIG. Maybe the problem with a lot of RPC t

CORBA's IDL was great; we're using a home grown variant for C++/C#/Java/JS interop, and it's much, much better than SWIG. Maybe the problem with a lot of RPC tools is that they conflate serialization format and remote call semantics (or "complect" these two factors, if I were inclined to mimic the pretentiousness of Rich Hickey).