Extend pie to be able to work with gRPC

[natefinch]

gRPC is really nice and really fast and has a ton of cross platform support (obviously way more than go-compatible RPC). Enabling gRPC would make a lot of interop problems with pie go away.

[pires]

This would be really awesome to have, particularly for stream-based RPC.

[yanpozka]

any progress on this ? I was close to create an issue with this topic ;)

[natefinch]

No progress, at the time, grpc was still a bit of a moving target. It's nicely released now, so I should look at this again.

[tgulacsi]

I've just implemented a gRPC transport for a plugin which I previously used pie (it had some error, which occasionally blocked the connection, which blocked everything).
I'm using Abstract Unix Domain Socket (Linux-specific), as gRPC needs a Listener, a simple connection is not enough (AFAIK).

[dchenk]

@tgulacsi and @natefinch can you please help with an answer: Why would you choose communicating over stdin/stdout instead of with Unix domain sockets? Is either method more reliable?

[tgulacsi]

No, I think they're the same regarding reliability, just that stdin/stdout is already there, needs no extra setup (unix domain socket needs to create a file somewhere, or an abstract socket (Linux specific and less secure)) and more platform-agnostic. Dmitriy <notifications@github.com> ezt írta (időpont: 2018. aug. 2., Cs, 4:07):

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[natefinch]

Yeah, mostly because the performance of Unix domain sockets on windows is really bad. ;)