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It's easy to call any code from any language - all you need is the power of HTTP and micro services! ;)

dikaiosune 10y ago
Microservices don't help polyglots make regexes faster. If you're sticking a 100ns operation behind an endpoint with JSON serialization/deserialization, network round-trip, etc., then I'm not sure what to say to that.
- sixbrx 10y ago
  Note wink at end of dangerlibrary's post!
  - dikaiosune 10y ago
    A wink does not necessarily mean sarcasm? I agree that in this case it probably does, but I don't see how that use of sarcasm adds anything substantive to the conversation (aside from a not-relevant-to-this-post dig on microservices, perhaps).
    - cobalt 10y ago
      i think he was making a joke... (dangerlibrary)
    - derefr 10y ago
      What the wink means is that dangerlibrary was making the same point you made in your reply to them.
- cderwin 10y ago
  Actually this microservices approach has existed for decades in erlang/otp and can maintain quite excellent speed. You're not going to beat raw c speed-wise, but typically you will beat comparable dynamic languages -- and you don't have to worry about decoding/encoding json or any of that bs. I'd personally be absolutely thrilled if something like genserver and some other otp protocols were ported to other dynamic languages -- but alas real processes aren't nearly efficient enough.
  - vvanders 10y ago
    You can also delegate to C with Erlang via NIFs
    - steveklabnik 10y ago
      Then there's https://github.com/hansihe/Rustler https://github.com/hansihe/Rustler
      - vvanders 10y ago
        Yes, that's been on my (long) list of things to check out.
btrask 10y ago
I wish you were joking.
- xaduha 10y ago
  Granted.
jkrems 10y ago
Reminds me of this: https://blogs.oracle.com/angelo/entry/url_encoding_and_other_from https://blogs.oracle.com/angelo/entry/url_encoding_and_other...
xiaq 10y ago
On a serious note, implementing libraries as standalone applications that can be accessed via IPC is actually a viable approach. Plan 9 does this with almost all of its services. Not exactly a fair comparison though, since the IPC mechanism in Plan 9 is just the file system and much easier to learn.

Microservices don't help polyglots make regexes faster. If you're sticking a 100ns operation behind an endpoint with JSON serialization/deserialization, network round-trip, etc., then I'm not sure what to say to that.

sixbrx 10y ago
Note wink at end of dangerlibrary's post!
- dikaiosune 10y ago
  A wink does not necessarily mean sarcasm? I agree that in this case it probably does, but I don't see how that use of sarcasm adds anything substantive to the conversation (aside from a not-relevant-to-this-post dig on microservices, perhaps).
  - cobalt 10y ago
    i think he was making a joke... (dangerlibrary)
  - derefr 10y ago
    What the wink means is that dangerlibrary was making the same point you made in your reply to them.
cderwin 10y ago
Actually this microservices approach has existed for decades in erlang/otp and can maintain quite excellent speed. You're not going to beat raw c speed-wise, but typically you will beat comparable dynamic languages -- and you don't have to worry about decoding/encoding json or any of that bs. I'd personally be absolutely thrilled if something like genserver and some other otp protocols were ported to other dynamic languages -- but alas real processes aren't nearly efficient enough.
- vvanders 10y ago
  You can also delegate to C with Erlang via NIFs
  - steveklabnik 10y ago
    Then there's https://github.com/hansihe/Rustler https://github.com/hansihe/Rustler
    - vvanders 10y ago
      Yes, that's been on my (long) list of things to check out.

btrask 10y ago

I wish you were joking.

xaduha 10y ago
Granted.

jkrems 10y ago

Reminds me of this: https://blogs.oracle.com/angelo/entry/url_encoding_and_other_from https://blogs.oracle.com/angelo/entry/url_encoding_and_other...

xiaq 10y ago

On a serious note, implementing libraries as standalone applications that can be accessed via IPC is actually a viable approach. Plan 9 does this with almost all of its services. Not exactly a fair comparison though, since the IPC mechanism in Plan 9 is just the file system and much easier to learn.