Anyone ever dabbled with gRPC with OCaml? E.g. building clients, servers, serializers, etc. I’ve come across piqi-ocaml and ocaml-protoc for serializations, but none for server/client implementations. I’m interested in exploring this, but would rather avoid duplication if there’s an effort or assess…

[image] shinzui: I opened an issue on the official gRPC issue tracker when I was researching OCaml. Yeah, and the response from the Googler committer who fielded the discussion in that issue was pretty blunt: @nathanielmanistaatgoogle… @shinzui : the magic of open source (and an open and u…

If we want a gRPC implementation in the OCaml community, we’re going to have to do it while having a lot of people at Google throwing bricks at us for trying it. I think that’s a bit pessimistic. When I submitted some code to the grpc project to make ocaml-ctypes bindings easier the response was…

It may be overly pessimistic. I’d be thrilled to learn about any grounds for optimism that OCaml could have a future inside Google. From my perspective, there is none.

[image] jhw: If we want a gRPC implementation in the OCaml community, we’re going to have to do it while having a lot of people at Google throwing bricks at us for trying it. The OCaml community really needs to tackle gRPC at some point. Not having gRPC and full GraphQL support is going to b…

Google hasn’t shown itself to be much of a PL place so far. Aside from Go, which isn’t a shining beacon of language design, they tend to stick with the ‘tried and true’ languages from what I can tell. Unlike facebook, for example, or even Microsoft.

It’s not a substitute for having first class OCaml support, (lack of a http2 library is a big blocker) but until that arrives you can use grpc-gateway with ocaml-swagger or atdgen . Disclaimer: I don’t know if ocaml-swagger works with the grpc-gateway’s Swagger output.

[image] bluddy: Google hasn’t shown itself to be much of a PL place so far. Predictable side effect of the monolithic repository tactic .

But FB also uses the monorepo tactic, and they have a bunch of fancy PL stuff. And Jane Street does too (though I guess we but one fancy PL). Honestly, I don’t see the connection. y

It may be overly pessimistic. I’d be thrilled to learn about any grounds for optimism that OCaml could have a future inside Google. From my perspective, there is none. Whether OCaml has a “future inside Google” is a separate (and not especially relevant) question. You said that people at Google …

But FB also uses the monorepo tactic, and they have a bunch of fancy PL stuff. And Jane Street does too (though I guess we but one fancy PL). Honestly, I don’t see the connection. Maybe it’s because FB had big PL related challenges to face, due to its early focus on php which tends to be… messy.…

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