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by gmfawcett 1375 days ago
I 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_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.