Re: [9fans] Thrift RPC

[erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>]

> Am I totally missing something or hasn't been the binary RPC
> of that style been dead ever since SUNRPC? Hasn't the eulogy
> been delivered by CORBA? Haven't folks realized that S-exprs
> are really quite good for data serialization in the heterogeneous
> environments (especially when they are called JSON) and you
> really shouldn't be made to figure out how large is the integer
> on a host foo?

i'm sure i'll be flamed into nothingness for this, but a lot of what
the supposedly cutting edge does these days seems to me to be
exactly what we were taught only those reprobate mainframers
did in unix' heyday.  the stuff i've seen recently seems fragile and
special purpose.  i didn't see any ideas i recognized in the gfs
interview.  i missed the organizing principles of gfs, except if they
are to just to go fast.  it all seems to hark back to the days
mainframers put disk addresses in their data.

if we're going back there, just take me out back and shoot me now.
i want to remember some progress in computer science.

i maintain just a flicker of hope that computer guys are bad at
history.  the days of mach seemed especially dark, too.

- erik