I think IDLs are an important point among many others (I attempted to list some above). I think we might be missing substantial improvements if we'd just say "o

I think IDLs are an important point among many others (I attempted to list some above). I think we might be missing substantial improvements if we'd just say "oh so we're back to a static IDL description, all old is new again". And even within IDLs, we've made major progress. Compare the mess of SOAP's data type system, various attempts at inheritance and polymorphism in SOAP and CORBA, pointers in CORBA etc.