Intrigued to see that y’all are trying out react-native for Keybase. How’s it going? :)
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Outstanding! How have the go bindings been treating you? Feel like wins from sharing defeat complexity and overhead?
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Yeah, I saw that. Definitely cuts down on FFI noise, though of course the infra is heavy. Happy you went this way?
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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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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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Exactly. Had enough fun in previous life trying to get C++ to work. One of Go's finest attributes is that the
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Makes sense. You certainly don’t have to convince me of C++’s comparative incoherence. :)
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library ecosystem fits together so well. Whereas in C/C++ every library has its own idea about what the
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