Google Summer of Code 2011 application

[Masahiro Nakagawa]

On Wed, 09 Mar 2011 04:37:43 +0900, Andrei Alexandrescu  
<SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:

> I just submitted an application for GSoC 2011 on behalf of Digital Mars.  
> Please review and contribute to the project ideas page:
>
> http://prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?GSOC_2011_Ideas
>

> Bindings to popular IPC/RPC protocols such as Protocol Buffers and  
> Apache Thrift
>
> Key Skills: Intimate knowledge of cross-machine communication protocols. 
> Large-scale programming using D requires bindings to cross-machine and  
> cross-language communication protocols. Such include Google's  Protocol  
> Buffers,  Apache Thrift, and others. D's standard library currently  
> includes no such protocol implementation. Providing such would motivate  
> adoption of D for large-scale development.

Protocol Buffers and Thrift need code generation using IDL unlike  
MessagePack, BERT, etc.
Such protocols are acceptable to Phobos?