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by p_l 184 days ago
Was not aware that Cap'n Proto RPC got object references over network, need to update my knowledge some day (unfortunately for it, it's also not used by any project I need to interact with)

Persistence wasn't really an issue for me, though I am fully aware how popular in many ways it was to look there.

But ready made naming and discovery are somewhat important when:

- I don't want to mess with details of where specific endpoint is etc - with easily available open source CORBA code, I can setup single CORBA Naming service and provide reference to it from all other components, and while I could do it myself, there's a bit of ease to have a pre-existing IDL and basic "initial naming reference" I can utilise

- discovery is more the use of "Trader" service after establishing the naming part.

Essentially, I have few projects where I want to move the current hodge-podge of hard coded parts into a setup where components can be auto detected and auto configured dynamically with minimal effort from me, and with as wide language support as I can get (including Ada and Common Lisp)