Is Thrift the new CORBA?

[Martin Ba]

Is Thrift the new CORBA? - Just been wondering :-)

https://thrift.apache.org/

As a RPC communications framework it seems to do pretty much everything
I use of CORBA plus some nice extras like versioning, more languages
supported, ...

I'm sure CORBA users have already looked at Thrift. What's the current
opinion?

cheers,
Martin

[m***@gmail.com]

Post by Martin Ba
Is Thrift the new CORBA? - Just been wondering :-)
https://thrift.apache.org/
As a RPC communications framework it seems to do pretty much everything
I use of CORBA plus some nice extras like versioning, more languages
supported, ...
I'm sure CORBA users have already looked at Thrift. What's the current
opinion?
cheers,
Martin

I see that the thrift paper dismisses CORBA in about one sentence! And it doesn't mention ICE. And it says that google protocol buffers are closed source! Not a good start....

[Martin Ba]

Post by m***@gmail.com

Post by Martin Ba
Is Thrift the new CORBA? - Just been wondering :-)
https://thrift.apache.org/
As a RPC communications framework it seems to do pretty much everything
I use of CORBA plus some nice extras like versioning, more languages
supported, ...
I'm sure CORBA users have already looked at Thrift. What's the current
opinion?
cheers,
Martin

I see that the thrift paper dismisses CORBA in about one sentence! And it doesn't mention ICE. And it says that google protocol buffers are closed source! Not a good start....

Yeah, but that paper is from 2007, not exactly current, and back then
protobuf *was* closed source AFAIK.

ICE started somewhen in 2003, so it may not have been as known in 2007.
Plus FB would have to shell out license cost to ZeroC if they'd been
serious about using it.
It's an interesting thought though: "What if FB had use ICE?" :-)

cheers.