State of GRPC with rust-protobuf?

[mwlon]

@stepancheg I really appreciate your work, and I'm curious about the present and future of GRPC with rust-protobuf:

• In the project's current state, are there any good GRPC clients that work with it? I know you've previously worked on a GRPC implementation, but it sounds like it's not ready for production use.
• Are there any examples of using rust-protobuf with a GRPC client?
• I know you've been looking for more community support in developing this project. Does it look like you or others will be able to get your grpc crate to a completed state anytime soon?

Thanks.

[stepancheg]

are there any good GRPC clients that work with it?

grpc-rs, which depends on native C (or C++?) implementation

And there's tonic-grpc for prost protobuf. It should be possible to make tonic-grpc work with rust-protobuf, but nobody did it yet.

on a GRPC implementation, but it sounds like it's not ready for production use

Right.

Are there any examples of using rust-protobuf with a GRPC client?

grpc-rs or grpc-rust should have examples.

Does it look like you or others will be able to get your grpc crate to a completed state anytime soon?

Soon, definitely not.

[0xcaff]

I've gotten GRPC working with tonic (codegen and all). I've added it as an example to tonic. hyperium/tonic#1789 The setup is a little big kludgy but the usage works great!