Comment by mikepurvis

Ha, I wondered if you'd comment. Yeah that's a reasonable take.

I think for me it would be less about locking out stodgy, boring companies, and perhaps instead it being an issue for emerging platforms that are themselves concerned with the optics of being "taken seriously". I'm specifically in the robotics space, and over the past ten years ROS has been basically rewritten to be based around DDS, and I know during the evaluation process for that there were prototypes kicked around that would have been more webtech type stuff, things like 0mq, protobufs, etc. In the end the decision for DDS was made on technical merits, but I still suspect that it being a thing that had preexisting traction in aerospace and especially NASA influenced that.