[dpeckett]

It's mind-blowing to think XDR / ONC RPC V2 were products of the 1980s, and that sitting here nearly forty years later we are discussing the same problem space.

Probably the biggest challenge with something like XDR is it's very hard to maintain tooling around it long-term. Nobody wants to pay for forty years of continuous incremental improvement, maintenance, and modernization.

Long term this churn will hopefully slow down, it's inevitable as we collectively develop a solid set of "engineering principles" for the industry.

[jeffrallen]

> Nobody wants to pay for forty years of continuous incremental improvement, maintenance, and modernization.

And yet somehow, we are willing to pay to reinvent the thing 25 times in 40 years.

[dpeckett]

It's a different company paying each time ;)

I'm actually super excited to see how https://www.sovereign.tech turns out long-term. Germany has a lot of issues with missing the boat on tech, but the sovereign tech fund is such a fantastic idea.