AltME: R3 Protocols

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Robert
I'm still convinced that it makes a lot of sense.
Pekr
That was also kind of idea of Uniserve, upon which Cheyenne is built. Maybe a bit inspired in Python's Medusa. All protocols are hot plugs IIRC. I too think, that some kind of general mechanism, upon which various (app) protocols could be built, would be fine. In that regards, I found R3 Chat being a step back, not forward ...
Robert
And I wouldn't do all the low-level stuff in Rebol but on the C side.
Gregg
Didin't Ladislav write BEER a long time ago?
Robert
Yes, in Rebol. With a lot of problems.
I don't know if it was standard conform or just a fork of the idea.
Gregg
I don't either. Probably have an old copy somewhere here. Lad's stuff has been offline for a while I think.
Gregg
I think I liked the idea of a way to build protocols like PARSE lets us build DSLs, but never got it to stick for me.
Pekr
I would not try to overcome port mechanism, whatever it takes. If there are bugs, those should be fixed. Well, it might be an extension (which is C). We will see, how Red IO turns out, once out ...

Robert
I don't like to port model that much. Might be because I never digged deep enough into it. But trying to generalize IO with a common API or model was tried in several other enviironments and all I know failed.
IMO putting network stuff to a higher level makes sense. Much higher level so that I can think of it in sending things back and forther and that's it.
Gregg
Have you looked at 0MQ? It's basically send/receive, with socket types that have semantics (req/rep, pub/sub, push/pull).
Kaj
0MQ looks like that on the surface and in the marketing, but when you start making real systems, you have to do a fair bit more
The problem with those network abstractions is that there quickly are reasons you have to poke under the hood

Gregg
Have you found something better? It's all about tradeoffs, right?
Maarten
Now I'm tickled
Gregg
Kaj, maybe I should ask, instead, what poking under the hood you've had to do. I'm not stressing 0MQ in my work (very low message rates, largely for IPC), but some other work I did with it a few years ago hit it much harder and was still very easy to do.
Kaj
Most simple examples, and what most people start with, is request/reply, but this quickly becomes useless in real-world situations
To be more flexible and scale it, you have to switch to dealer/router, which means managing and interpreting the multiple parts of request/reply messages, including the under-the-hood identity part
Now you're juggling sub-messages and babysitting their consistency, and soon you have to manage the internal sub-messages by creating, copying and destroying them, and comparing their content
First you think, ZeroMQ is about queueing, so I don't have to make my own message queues anymore, but again that only works in the simplest examples

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