Hey,
I have collected some experience using gRPC[1] and would like to make clients
and be a server from Pharo. After digging into the gRPC implementation it seems
feasible[2]. Would someone be interested in collaborating on an implementation?
cheers
holger
[1] An RPC framework using HTTP2 and sending Google Protobuf serialized data.
It is used by etcd (distributed key value store, master election), apparently
containerd (of docker) and the list is probably increasing. It has interesting
load balancing support...
[2] Wrap the C-API with with FFI, modify the gRPC protobuf compiler to generate
Pharo classes with slots for the native types, create a polling Pharo Process
to pull the completion_queue. With ThreadedFFI we could have lower latency and
have a blocking call on the completion queue.
