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The docs seem to suggest that this is a fairly heavy whole system framework, not just an RPC framework. Although I'm not sure because the translation in English

The docs seem to suggest that this is a fairly heavy whole system framework, not just an RPC framework. Although I'm not sure because the translation in English is rather poor and I unfortunately do not read mandarin. I want to understand but it's a very hard to read document. I'm curious if someone can tell more about: (1) what the value proposition is in a succinct manner, (2) the specific advantages of this technology versus other RPC frameworks like gRPC or Thrift, (3) some details about the serialization protocol, in particular is it attempting to be low memory overhead like Cap'n Proto or to have interesting features like Flatbuffers?

yegle 7y ago
OT and Nit: Mandarin refers to one of the ways to read Chinese characters (there are other ways e.g. Cantonese, Taiwanese). So you can say "I don't speak Mandarin", but not "I don't read Mandarin".
- yomly 7y ago
  You can definitely write Cantonese so I'm not even convinced you are correct.
- bobthepanda 7y ago
  You can definitely say "read Mandarin", because particularly in informal contexts there is definitely a difference between "Standard Chinese" based on Mandarin and, say, spoken Cantonese written down.
- Loranubi 7y ago
  You are partly correct. Mandarin usually refers to the spoken language and Chinese to the written characters. However there are still differences in writing / vocabulary even if you disregard the existence of simplified and traditional versions. It's similar to US and British English. Books are are often translated to both versions and it's similar for (Mainland) Chinese, Hong Kong Chinese or Taiwanese Chinese text with even more extreme differences.
MarkLightning 7y ago
gRPC: only RPC framework, no service governance, like no service discovery, no heartbeat detection，service region... TARS: a set of microservice governance platform including monitoring and dashboard...

yegle 7y ago

OT and Nit: Mandarin refers to one of the ways to read Chinese characters (there are other ways e.g. Cantonese, Taiwanese). So you can say "I don't speak Mandarin", but not "I don't read Mandarin".

yomly 7y ago
You can definitely write Cantonese so I'm not even convinced you are correct.
bobthepanda 7y ago
You can definitely say "read Mandarin", because particularly in informal contexts there is definitely a difference between "Standard Chinese" based on Mandarin and, say, spoken Cantonese written down.
Loranubi 7y ago
You are partly correct. Mandarin usually refers to the spoken language and Chinese to the written characters. However there are still differences in writing / vocabulary even if you disregard the existence of simplified and traditional versions. It's similar to US and British English. Books are are often translated to both versions and it's similar for (Mainland) Chinese, Hong Kong Chinese or Taiwanese Chinese text with even more extreme differences.

MarkLightning 7y ago

gRPC: only RPC framework, no service governance, like no service discovery, no heartbeat detection，service region... TARS: a set of microservice governance platform including monitoring and dashboard...