On Saturday, 17 August 2013 at 08:29:37 UTC, glycerine wrote:
On Wednesday, 14 August 2013 at 13:43:50 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
On Wednesday, 14 August 2013 at 13:28:42 UTC, glycerine wrote:
Wishful thinking aside, they are competitors.
They are not. `std.serialization` does not and should not
compete in Thrift domain.
Huh? Do you know what thrift does? Summary: Everything that
Orange/std.serialization does and more.
That's actually not true. Thrift does not serialize arbitrary
object graphs, or any types with indirections, for that matter.
This is by design, it would be hard to do this efficiently in all
target languages, and contrary to Orange, performance is the main
focus of Thrift.
If you
are going to standardize something, standardize the Thrift
bindings so that the compiler doesn't introduce regressions
that break them, like happened from dmd 2.062 - present.
On a related note, we desperately need to do something about
this, especially since there seems to be an increased amount of
interest in Thrift lately. For 2.061 and the previous releases, I
always tested every beta against Thrift, and almost invariably
found at least one bug/regression per release. However, for 2.062
and 2.063, I was busy with LDC (and other things) at the time and
it seems like I forgot to run the tests.
The DMD 2.062+ error message (see
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/THRIFT-2130) doesn't make
much sense; I guess the best way of going about this would be to
try to DustMite-reduce the problem first or to fire up DMD in gdb
to see what exactly is tripping the recursive alias error.
David
