On: 21 years and counting of 'eight fallacies of distributed computing' (2025)

[rusk]

In my recollection COM became ActiveX which fell down the distributed objects hole along with CORBA because it embodied many of these fallacies.

[inigyou → rusk]

COM still exists. That is like saying Java fell down the Spring framework rabbit hole. It did, but you can still use Java without using Spring.

[rusk → inigyou]

It still exists? Like Java still exists

[inigyou → rusk]

It still exists and it's used by windows APIs, even recently designed ones