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"The horror, the horror."
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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?

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Synchronisation based on spooky action at a distance of mutable objects.
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CORBA had the concept of distributed objects which is a terrible idea in practice.
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