On Saturday, 17 August 2013 at 11:20:17 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
1) Having bindings in standard library is discouraged, we have Deimos for that. There is only curl stuff and it is considered a bad solution as far as I am aware of.
The D implementation of Thrift is actually not a binding and does not necessarily rely on the Thrift code generator either – all the latter does is to generate a D struct definition for the types/method parameters in your .thrift file that is then handled at D compile-time via reflection. In fact, this even works the other way, allowing you to generate .thrift IDL files for existing D types. (And yes, in theory the code generator could be replaced by ImportExpressions and a CTFE parser.)
David
