Hello everyone,

I'm currently working on building microservices using the D programming language. I'm looking for efficient and well-supported gRPC libraries that are compatible with D. Does anyone have experience with gRPC in D or know of any reliable libraries that I can use?

If native D libraries are scarce or lack support, would it be more practical to interface with a gRPC library written in C or another language? I'd appreciate any insights, recommendations, or experiences you could share on this topic.

Thank you in advance for your help!

On Thursday, 17 October 2024 at 17:23:43 UTC, Lover wrote:

Hey there

Interesting topic. Please share your experience in any case - either you deploy D in production or switch to another solution.

For D there are several options:

• from hunt labs
  https://code.dlang.org/packages/grpc
  Example: https://github.com/huntlabs/grpc-dlang/tree/master/examples
  But they had some issues with interop with other languages

• from Harrison Ford
  https://code.dlang.org/packages/grpc-d-core
  https://code.dlang.org/packages/grpc-d-interop
  Example: https://github.com/mw66/grpc-demo/tree/master

On Thursday, 17 October 2024 at 19:17:19 UTC, Sergey wrote:

My advice: none of the following grpc D library are of production quality:

If you insist on using grpc, I would suggest using the official C++ grpc which forward the internal real processing to D language via the D C++ external interface.

On Friday, 18 October 2024 at 01:35:33 UTC, mw wrote:

What about other available options?
There are some ports of Avro and MessagePack?
Thrift also has support of D.

Did you try it? Do you think any of them are production ready?

On Friday, 18 October 2024 at 06:52:28 UTC, Sergey wrote:

Tried Thrift, it might be production ready, since it's officially maintained by the Thrift team. However, it has a build issue (unless you want to manually fix it)

https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22083