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Intrigued to see that y’all are trying out react-native for Keybase. How’s it going? :)

it's going well! Sharing code with our electron app and using go also

Outstanding! How have the go bindings been treating you? Feel like wins from sharing defeat complexity and overhead?

were kinda cheating by using msgpack across the bridge

Yeah, I saw that. Definitely cuts down on FFI noise, though of course the infra is heavy. Happy you went this way?

we'll see. If we need a side channel we can do that too

It's worth noting we picked this path since we already had a msgpack-RPC interface to the core service

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Gotcha. What was the original client of that msgpack service? Good to hear from you too Max!

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There are two: the CLI front-end, and KBFS!

Gotcha, makes sense. Curious why you didn’t go with a C/C++ library and FFI—preferred Go for safety / dev happiness?

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