I m working on a unification of programming languages databa

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I m working on a unification of programming languages databases and network protocols by starting with the serialization <https github com bintoca dbuf>

Alex Cruise · Answer

if only serialization were one of the hard parts confused

Alex Thompson · Answer

< Alex Cruise> Agreed its not the hard part but I feel leaving it to the end breeds fragmentation and becomes an obstacle to interoperability

Tom Larkworthy · Answer

The main gain of dbuf over protobuf is self describing are you aware of gRPC reflection <https github com grpc grpc blob master doc server reflection md> protobuffer can do it too but its not well documented

Alex Cruise · Answer

I use <http msgpack org|msgpack org> at my day job it was originally created by one of our founders it also has that property slightly smiling face

Alex Thompson · Answer

< Tom Larkworthy> That s a nice help tool but my goal is to go much further Instead of having dedicated endpoints that each accept a specific data layout have a server that could natively understand requests of different shapes

Alex Thompson · Answer

< Alex Cruise> Since you brought up out of the tar pit in a different channel that is where I m going with this Using the same type system for the wire relations indexes cached intermediate values and having it all be more runtime adaptive

Alex Cruise · Answer

You might be interested in the various WebAssembly efforts to standardize struct reference complex types

Alex Thompson · Answer

I have followed the progress of the GC proposal I think its going to have limited usefulness as it tries to cater to a wide variety of type systems

Alex Cruise · Answer

My snarky impression is they re reinventing IDL and large parts of the JVM but apparently there are enough people involved who have been around awhile that they have a decent shot at success confused

Alex Thompson · Answer

Yeah there s plenty of talent involved I guess part of what makes any big system is just belief