Comment by riffraff
7 hours ago
Forgive the ignorant question, what made CORBA terribile?
I only used it during university and it seemed overengineered but it mostly worked, and I vaguely recall IDL to be nice.
I'm guessing interop was actually atrocious?
Synchronisation based on spooky action at a distance of mutable objects.
CORBA had the concept of distributed objects which is a terrible idea in practice.