Hi,

the core of gRPC is written in C. I asked the developers whether they considered rewriting the core with Better C (https://github.com/grpc/grpc/issues/15786).
They answered that they won't rewrite it with Better C but they are open for including D into their ecosystem.
They have support for different languages and most of them are wrappers around the C Core functionality (C++, C#, Objective C, PHP, Python, Ruby).

As far as I know there is no gRPC wrapper for D at the moment and if I remember correctly on DConf München there was a speaker talking about the need of a D wrapper for gRPC.

My idea was to translate the C++ (https://github.com/grpc/grpc/tree/master/src/cpp) coding to D coding but my C++ knowledge is very limited.

Is someone interested in adding D to gRPC?

Kind regards
André

On Friday, 22 June 2018 at 18:10:54 UTC, Andre Pany wrote:
> Hi,
>
> the core of gRPC is written in C. I asked the developers whether they considered rewriting the core with Better C (https://github.com/grpc/grpc/issues/15786).
> They answered that they won't rewrite it with Better C but they are open for including D into their ecosystem.
> They have support for different languages and most of them are wrappers around the C Core functionality (C++, C#, Objective C, PHP, Python, Ruby).
>
> As far as I know there is no gRPC wrapper for D at the moment and if I remember correctly on DConf München there was a speaker talking about the need of a D wrapper for gRPC.
>
> My idea was to translate the C++ (https://github.com/grpc/grpc/tree/master/src/cpp) coding to D coding but my C++ knowledge is very limited.
>
> Is someone interested in adding D to gRPC?
>
> Kind regards
> André

I'm also very interested in a D binding. But I have no C binding skills. Maybe the direlict guys can help. gRPC is the gold standard for rpc in the interprese. I'm surprised we don't have much ctivity around it.

On Friday, 22 June 2018 at 18:10:54 UTC, Andre Pany wrote:
> Hi,
>
> the core of gRPC is written in C. I asked the developers whether they considered rewriting the core with Better C (https://github.com/grpc/grpc/issues/15786).
> They answered that they won't rewrite it with Better C but they are open for including D into their ecosystem.
> They have support for different languages and most of them are wrappers around the C Core functionality (C++, C#, Objective C, PHP, Python, Ruby).
>
> As far as I know there is no gRPC wrapper for D at the moment and if I remember correctly on DConf München there was a speaker talking about the need of a D wrapper for gRPC.
>
> My idea was to translate the C++ (https://github.com/grpc/grpc/tree/master/src/cpp) coding to D coding but my C++ knowledge is very limited.
>
> Is someone interested in adding D to gRPC?
>
> Kind regards
> André

Small update. With the help of evilrat I was able to translate the C headers to D.
https://github.com/andre2007/grpc/tree/feature/d/src/d/source/grpc/c

While the source code compiles without errors, everything is completely untested.
As next step I will try to rewrite the python grpc code with D:
https://github.com/andre2007/grpc/tree/feature/d/src/python/grpcio/grpc/_cython/_cygrpc

On Monday, 2 July 2018 at 10:25:07 UTC, Andre Pany wrote:
> On Friday, 22 June 2018 at 18:10:54 UTC, Andre Pany wrote:
>> [...]
>
> Small update. With the help of evilrat I was able to translate the C headers to D.
> https://github.com/andre2007/grpc/tree/feature/d/src/d/source/grpc/c
>
> While the source code compiles without errors, everything is completely untested.
> As next step I will try to rewrite the python grpc code with D:
> https://github.com/andre2007/grpc/tree/feature/d/src/python/grpcio/grpc/_cython/_cygrpc

Very interesting news. gRPC in D is a must. If it'll get used for web services and other microseevices.

On Monday, 2 July 2018 at 10:25:07 UTC, Andre Pany wrote:
> Small update. With the help of evilrat I was able to translate the C headers to D.
> https://github.com/andre2007/grpc/tree/feature/d/src/d/source/grpc/c
>
> While the source code compiles without errors, everything is completely untested.
> As next step I will try to rewrite the python grpc code with D:
> https://github.com/andre2007/grpc/tree/feature/d/src/python/grpcio/grpc/_cython/_cygrpc

That's really interesting! Are you thinking about translating some part of gRPC to DasBetterC?

On Monday, 2 July 2018 at 18:06:43 UTC, bpr wrote:
> On Monday, 2 July 2018 at 10:25:07 UTC, Andre Pany wrote:
>> Small update. With the help of evilrat I was able to translate the C headers to D.
>> https://github.com/andre2007/grpc/tree/feature/d/src/d/source/grpc/c
>>
>> While the source code compiles without errors, everything is completely untested.
>> As next step I will try to rewrite the python grpc code with D:
>> https://github.com/andre2007/grpc/tree/feature/d/src/python/grpcio/grpc/_cython/_cygrpc
>
> That's really interesting! Are you thinking about translating some part of gRPC to DasBetterC?

At the moment, no. Foremost priority is building a wrapper for D to open the gRPC ecosystem for D.

Kind regards
André