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Nate Cull (.social)Jun 2, 2022

The Progress of Software Engineering, 1989-2022

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Distributed_Objects

<< Portable Distributed Objects (PDO) is an application programming interface (API) for creating object-oriented code that can be executed remotely on a network of computers.. created by NeXT Computer, Inc. using their OpenStep system >>

<< The ability to instantiate any object known to the local process from any other process is a known security vulnerability, and Apple strongly discourages use of PDO for that reason. >>

Portable Distributed Objects - Wikipedia

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Nate Cull (.social)Jun 2, 2022

The ability to instantiate any Concept known to a human mind inside any other human mind by means of Speech is a known security vulnerability, and the United Network Command Office for Operational Logistics strongly discourages use of Speech for that reason.

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Nate Cull (.social)Jun 2, 2022

The thing that annoys me about the failure of distributed objects as a programming paradigm is that,

in the 1990s, you could not go anywhere in computing without being utterly hammered by the message that Objects and especially Distributed Objects were The Future Here Now, this was it, Programming was Solved Forever, if you didn't Get It you were just Wrong

and we just sorta slid from there into "actually distributed objects are terrible never use them"

but never acknowledging that change.

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brocolie (tots not a vampire)

@natecull I mean, part of the reason is because we have a better understanding of the limitations of OOP, no? And it's particularly bad when you mix OOP with high-latency calls.

Of course, at every moment there's people continuously reinventing the broken square wheel with even worse materials, but that's just how tech works these days when marketing is more important than what the thing materially does.