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Repeating my general request, someone please do a Speaking for the Dead on COBRA that includes the good, the hopeful, the smart. Also the bad too. These days i
by rektide 4y ago
Repeating my general request, someone please do a Speaking for the Dead on COBRA that includes the good, the hopeful, the smart.
Also the bad too. These days it's just a sign a symbol for bad, but in this hyperreality we dont know the referrant, dont know the lessons of the bad either.
But i want to hear the good most of all. And how good was avoided, missed, unfulfilled. Because it I think like so much else might possibly have gone great, if things & times & adoption had been only slightly barely different. It was just too soon for open source, is a huge possibility in my mind.
Also comparison versus DCOM/OLE would be informative, for historical context.
- gmfawcett 4y agoI wasn't a CORBA developer in those days, just an interested observer, so my opinion isn't worth much. Ultimately I think it suffered because of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacies_of_distributed_computing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacies_of_distributed_compu... The design of CORBA was based on critical assumptions that simply weren't true, leaving the application developer to deal with all the essential complexity.