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Chris Nauroth commented on HADOOP-10388: ---------------------------------------- I believe there are still no plans for the Microsoft compiler to provide full support for the most recent C standards. If we choose C, then we might have to stick to an old dialect, like we currently do in libhadoop.so/hadoop.dll. > Pure native hadoop client > ------------------------- > > Key: HADOOP-10388 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-10388 > Project: Hadoop Common > Issue Type: New Feature > Reporter: Binglin Chang > > A pure native hadoop client has following use case/advantages: > 1. writing Yarn applications using c++ > 2. direct access to HDFS, without extra proxy overhead, comparing to web/nfs > interface. > 3. wrap native library to support more languages, e.g. python > 4. lightweight, small footprint compare to several hundred MB of JDK and > hadoop library with various dependencies. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.2#6252)