@fanf42 @hrefna CORBA is actually still all over the place in the guts of the dbus/xorg stack.
It was a decent concept (for its time, and even now), executed abysmally. Also a victim of the parasitic business models that existed in the old days, when you'd have to pay 1000s of $ for protocol libraries that only halfway worked (on purpose)
OSS has thankfully put an end to all that, but a lot of decent standards failed because of it, CORBA being one.