gRPC, Better C and D

[Andre Pany]

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