gRPC in D good idea for GSOC 2018?

[yawniek]

On Monday, 15 January 2018 at 19:28:08 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
> I know a project where D could benefit from gRPC in D, which is 
> not among the supported languages:
>
>   https://grpc.io/docs/
>
> Do you think gRPC support is worth adding to GSOC 2018 ideas?
>
>   https://wiki.dlang.org/GSOC_2018_Ideas
>
> Ali

Problem here is that D lacks a proper http/2 stack.
unfortunately due to time constraints my libh2o binding project 
got stuck.

Imo the real problem with D is still that phobos does not provide 
the important building blocks for today modern infrastrucutre:

- fast and standardized eventloop compatible with Ds concurrency 
primitives
- network protocol libs/ bindings ( http, http/2, tls, dns )

until there is effort to do this D will continue to be an 
ecosystem of hacks.
I really like vibe.d but it comes with a lot of problems and it 
has the focus of providing a usable web framework and not 
implementing protocols in a fast and reusable way.

so as long as "management" does not decide that internet 
protocols is something important in D nothing useful will come 
out. Just look how beautiful Golangs protocol implementations are 
and the whole ecosystem that focused effort spawned.