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by euyyn 3223 days ago
> It would be even better if people working on these specs spent some time reading research papers on how a sane component-based system could work.

I don't know the people working on these specs, but presuming that they aren't aware of research in the area, and moreover of what has worked in practice and what hasn't, is audacious.

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It's true that I don't know for sure, but I haven't seen any citations, or verbal references, or any similarities in the APIs that would indicate familiarity with the relevant research I had in mind.

Also, a lot of research in this field is done through working proof-of-concept systems, so there is no point in implying that those designs don't work "in practice".

By working in practice I don't mean "unimplementable or not", I mean the difference between CORBA and gRPC: One can argue endlessly about the benefits of one vs the other, but it's practical experience what's informed the latter of how and why the former sucked.