Don't get me wrong, we did a lot of good work in CORBA and learned a lot while doing it, people still use it, it's still very widely deployed, and a ton of interesting research was done based on CORBA. But one of the reasons I think so highly of Erlang is that it treats distributed system concerns as first-class citizens, whereas CORBA was born of RPC notions of trying to hide distribution behind programming languages. Now, it's not entirely as black-and-white as I just stated it, but that's one of the fundamental differences. Erlang just gets a whole bunch of things right.
The talk is really about using Erlang in a hardware multimedia switch. I briefly mentioned CORBA within the talk because I spent about 16 years working on it, and was comparing it to Erlang.
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