From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII; format=flowed Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 20:33:51 -0700 From: Roman Shaposhnik To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Message-id: Subject: [9fans] Thrift RPC Topicbox-Message-UUID: 44f21efe-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 I've just been enlightened by a friend of mine who explained to me that binary RPC is still alive and kicking: http://incubator.apache.org/thrift/ http://incubator.apache.org/thrift/static/thrift-20070401.pdf and, of course, nothing in CS is complete these days unless there's somebody at Google working on it: http://code.google.com/apis/protocolbuffers Am I totally missing something or hasn't been the binary RPC of that style been dead ever since SUNRPC? Hasn't the eulogy been delivered by CORBA? Haven't folks realized that S-exprs are really quite good for data serialization in the heterogeneous environments (especially when they are called JSON) and you really shouldn't be made to figure out how large is the integer on a host foo? Thanks, Roman.