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
