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They also reinvented CORBA and DCOM, as MCP now supports gRPC as optional protocol.

The reason is that these "folks getting paid several hundred thousand dollars a year" are mostly youngsters without any care to learn about computing history, which is why IT is a fashion industry.

See HTMX as another example, that is basically ASP.NET Ajax or JSF Ajax.

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If only they could ask for history lessons from an LLM!

(To your point...having knocked out CORBA and DCOM, perhaps we may next look forward to SOAP.)

I always have to smile that the whole microservices, isn't much different from "The network is the computer", Taligent, CORBA/DCOM, WebServices, SOA,.... with iPaaS products being another go at BPEL.

Maybe Microsoft should bring back Biztalk for agentic workflows.

As a veteran of JSF - it is similar, but done better, I think. It's only the frontend. Those technologies were more heavyweight, where each component had a lifecycle it went though on each render, and you needed the backend and frontend to support them. HTMX just takes whatever HTML your backend cares to generate, using whatever method it likes, and does the needful with it.

Maybe Greenspun's Tenth Rule applies to anything "common".

oh no, all of those technologies die on their own merits a long time ago. they were basically over engineered and bloated and horrible to work with.

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