[OT] ZeroMQ (Was: Anyone have D protobuf?)

[Nick Sabalausky]

On Sun, 21 Oct 2012 02:13:30 +0200
"Chris Nicholson-Sauls" <ibisbasenji at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Saturday, 20 October 2012 at 07:28:07 UTC, Nick Sabalausky 
> wrote:
> > Not a big deal, but does anyone have or know of a usable 
> > up-to-date
> > protocol buffers implementation for D? All I've found is this:
> >
> > https://256.makerslocal.org/wiki/index.php/ProtocolBuffer
> >
> > But it's old, says its status is only "mid-implementation", has 
> > no
> > license info, and I think it might be D1.
> 
> It has been started at least three times that I know of, but I 
> don't think anyone ever finished such a beast (I'm guilty of one 
> of those myself).  But in related news, in case it fits what 
> you're hoping to do, I've written a binding, and am in the 
> process of a wrapper, for zeroMQ: https://github.com/csauls/DZMQ
> 
> It is usable in the simplest sense as is; so maybe if you're 
> willing to roll your own object<->string conversions, this would 
> be a start.
> 

I just needed message packing/unpacking, and it looks like that's
outside the scope of ZeroMQ, so that's not really what I needed.

But ZeroMQ does look really good though, maybe I *should* have been
looking for it ;) I may consider using it, but my biggest concern is
that I can't find anything about using it for UDP-style "Fast as
possible *without* worrying about dropped, out-of-order, or duplicated
packets." Because some of my data will be of that nature. If it had
that *and* optional encryption (comparable with HTTPS/SSL/TLS) for some
(although not all) messages, then I'd be *totally* sold on it.