Simplicity is winning!

In the software development community, I am starting to feel like good is winning over evil ;)

Miguel de Icaza, lead developer for the Gnome and mono projects, seems to be considering replacing the heavy D-BUS and CORBA bonobo infrastructure with a simple http and REST protocol.

I remember when CORBA was just starting to get around and it seemed like the best thing since sliced bread. As with many things in life, time and experience teach us which things are important and which are distractions. Selecting the important concepts from CORBA and using them in a lighter framework feels like what I imagine wisdom feels like :)