Language support with gRPC

[Inderpreet Singh]

Hi

I am evaluating flatbuffers for using as the de facto means of communication between our internal services. We are also evaluating gRPC and I would like to use flatbuffers instead of protobuf 3. We primarily use Go and PHP (with some Python and Java).

I saw some examples of using flatbuffers with gRPC in Go. Do you plan to support PHP, Java and Python? Is there a timeline for support. If not, how hard would it be to add support on our end? Any examples that I can look at? 

Inder

[Wouter van Oortmerssen]

We eventually plan to support all features in all languages, but we have no timeline. A lot of it is made by external contributors. Your help would definitely be welcome!

Some languages in gRPC are supported directly in the C++ implementation (like Python), others have their own stand-alone implementation (like Go), so the effort to support them depends on which direction this goes. Typically, to support a language you first need to make a PR to gRPC itself (to make it not require Protobuf, most of this work has already been done), then add a code-generator for the language to FlatBuffers.

Examples of what this looks like you can find in my links from here:

https://github.com/grpc/grpc/issues/5438

https://github.com/grpc/grpc-go/issues/880

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