a new vision

[chase-moskal]

a new vision for renraku v0.6

what stays the same

• renraku is still about magically exposing ordinary async functions as an api
• transport agnostic, http, websockets, postmessage popups/iframes/webworkers, etc

what's different

• abandoning json-rpc in favor of a hyper-efficient custom binary protocol
• Conduit is a simple primitive for binary messaging
• renraku's Rpc layer works on top of a conduit to provide RPC functionality
• 🧐 automatic transferables -- when on a medium that supports transferables, all transferables will be transferred automatically -- buffers, offscreencanvas, frames, etc -- no more weird [tune] syntax
• 🤯 automatic stream support -- you can just pass streams over the wire like normal, and it'll magically work

why

• i really really really want streams to magically work
• i'm sick of the funky tune syntax
• i don't actually care that much about json-rpc 2.0 compat, especially since it doesn't support streams
• i super want better efficiency than json-rpc, and a sub-layer of primitives that allow me to ergonomically make a messaging system where each message type is identified by a single damn byte, i mean like EFFICIENT
• i want streams

what will be hard

• first, this will involve inventing a binary format for json data, extended to support streams, bigints, fancy stuff like that, might as well throw in maps and sets or whatever too
• this is a full rewrite of renraku