2009/8/13 Roman Shaposhnik <r...@sun.com>: > Am I totally missing something or hasn't been the binary RPC > of that style been dead ever since SUNRPC? Hasn't the eulogy > been delivered by CORBA? Haven't folks realized that S-exprs > are really quite good for data serialization in the heterogeneous > environments (especially when they are called JSON)
i'm not familiar with Thrift, but i've done some stuff with google protobufs, from which i think Thrift is inspired. speaking of protobufs, i don't think they're a bad idea. they're specifically designed to deal with forward- and backward-compatibility, which is something you don't automatically get with s-expressions, and if you're dealing with many identically-typed records, the fact that each field in each record is not string-tagged counts saves a lot of bandwidth (and makes them more compressible, too). we don't use text for 9p, do we? > and you > really shouldn't be made to figure out how large is the integer > on a host foo? ?
