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German Rheinmetall open-sources its Battlesuite connected weapon system protcol

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  1. j-pb · · focus · HN ↗
    First I was excited, then I saw that it's based on DDS.
    1. budman1 · · focus · HN ↗
      why the hate on DDS?

      seems like a perfect fit.

      1. j-pb · · focus · HN ↗
        DDS is the least bad of the stuff that has come out of OMG, but it's not a nice middleware still. There is no underlying algebra of that composes nicely when compared to Zenoh for example, and the "vendor independence" and compatibility is usually a joke. There's a reason ROS is moving away from it again.
        1. bahmboo · · focus · HN ↗
          There's a standard that has OMG as the acronym? OMG. I'm not even going to bother to search for that!
          1. jjmarr · · focus · HN ↗
            Object Management Group I think. Better known as the inventors of UML.
            1. __d · · focus · HN ↗
              UML was phase two of OMG. It originally developed CORBA.
              1. pcestrada · · focus · HN ↗
                "The horror, the horror."
                1. riffraff · · focus · HN ↗
                  Forgive the ignorant question, what made CORBA terribile?

                  I only used it during university and it seemed overengineered but it mostly worked, and I vaguely recall IDL to be nice.

                  I'm guessing interop was actually atrocious?

                  1. j-pb · · focus · HN ↗
                    Synchronisation based on spooky action at a distance of mutable objects.
                  2. imtringued · · focus · HN ↗
                    CORBA had the concept of distributed objects which is a terrible idea in practice.
            2. Slartie · · focus · HN ↗
              Also BPMN, CORBA and UPOS/JavaPOS.

              It's funny that you can legitimately just add " - OMG!" in the slang acronym meaning after any of its creations' names.

            3. Telemakhos · · focus · HN ↗
              They also merged the concepts of Working Group and Task Force into an Open Management Group Working Task Force, or OMG/WTF.
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