[whizzter]

2: You can do HTTP/Json requests "transparently" just fine, it's an implementation issue. The issue is if you're doing that from JS you're blocking the only thread and even in a server/desktop language like Java, C# or C++ you're going to be blocking the entire thread and possibly degrade performance. This wouldn't have been any different with CORBA (But people ignored thread cost issues back in those days).

3: again implementation issue.

4: swagger/openapi will help on the compile side (sadly not runtime with all languages but again, language/impl issue)

5: generators are still a thing and available if you look.

[lelanthran]

For each thing you list as an implementation issue, it's a problem.

My complaint is not "these things don't exist now", it's "they're not part of the standard". For each "it's an implementation issue", you have multiple incompatible competing mechanisms. With CORBA, while the standard was large and stupid, the very basic thing (make an RPC call, get the response and handle any errors) was supported by the standard in a non-ambiguous and practical way.

So, yeah, the fact that something that was available in the 90s is now available depending on implementation is the problem.