Re: [racket-users] Re: Efficient & "nice" communication mechanism between Racket and other languages

2017-09-08 Thread Daniel Prager
For youpatch.com my colleague and I used a "quasi-microservices architecture" to get my Racket, his Python, and our JavaScript to work together, using JSON and HTTP. Starting out with a JSON and HTTP would give you a baseline, and then swapping in other formats and transport mechanisms could allo

Re: [racket-users] Re: Efficient & "nice" communication mechanism between Racket and other languages

2017-09-08 Thread Greg Hendershott
A hot-take brain-dump: Seems like two aspects: What and how. (The serialization format and the communication method.) What: The correct answer is s-expressions. :) Maybe EDN. OK, OK. A more agnostic answer is JSON -- it has flaws, but it's widely supported among languages, and "everything is a

[racket-users] Re: Efficient & "nice" communication mechanism between Racket and other languages

2017-09-08 Thread Brian Adkins
On Thursday, September 7, 2017 at 11:56:37 PM UTC-4, Jack Firth wrote: > On Thursday, September 7, 2017 at 9:11:47 AM UTC-7, Brian Adkins wrote: > > I'm considering having a group of programmers create micro-services in > > various programming languages to be glued together into a single > > appl

[racket-users] Re: Efficient & "nice" communication mechanism between Racket and other languages

2017-09-07 Thread Jack Firth
On Thursday, September 7, 2017 at 9:11:47 AM UTC-7, Brian Adkins wrote: > I'm considering having a group of programmers create micro-services in > various programming languages to be glued together into a single application. > I would like a communication mechanism with the following characterist