Is this project dead?

[Eclextic]

I've been looking at this project because I've come to despise tonic and how they have managed to force tokio usage... I wanted to use monoio so I searched for a different gRPC implementation and reached this project. Now I am asking myself though if it is dead...

Last 7 months no commit at all. The project is left at an "unfinished" state, where features like reflection haven't been implemented yet.

Should I start a new project with this library?

[BusyJay]

It's not dead, but in maintained mode that for bug fix only currently due to lack of resource. However, community feature development is still welcome.

[Eclextic]

So the remaining features won't be developed actively but rather left to the community?

[BusyJay]

Probably. But I believe reflection can be developed sometime.

[Eclextic]

Should I close this now that my answer has been answered or keep it so others also know what's up?

[Eclextic]

Also (and maybe this should be a separate issue, but I'll ask it here) is there a way to use Unix Domain Sockets? There is the connect_from_fd from the ChannelBuilder which seems like what I want, but is there a more "correct" way?

[BusyJay]

Check

grpc-rs/tests-and-examples/tests/cases/misc.rs

Lines 170 to 212 in 2463081

	mod unix_domain_socket {
	use super::*;
	fn test_socket(path: &str) {
	let env = Arc::new(EnvBuilder::new().build());
	let service = create_greeter(PeerService);
	let mut server = ServerBuilder::new(env.clone())
	.register_service(service)
	.build()
	.unwrap();
	server
	.add_listening_port(path, ServerCredentials::insecure())
	.unwrap();
	server.start();
	let ch = ChannelBuilder::new(env).connect(path);
	let client = GreeterClient::new(ch);
	let req = HelloRequest::default();
	let resp = client.say_hello(&req).unwrap();
	assert_eq!(resp.message, "unix:", "{resp:?}");
	}
	#[test]
	fn test_unix_domain_socket() {
	struct Defer(&'static str);
	impl Drop for Defer {
	fn drop(&mut self) {
	let _ = std::fs::remove_file(&self.0[5..]);
	}
	}
	let socket_path = Defer("unix:test_socket");
	test_socket(socket_path.0);
	}
	#[cfg(target_os = "linux")]
	#[test]
	fn test_abstract_unix_domain_socket() {
	test_socket("unix-abstract:/test_socket");
	}
	}

[Eclextic]

Thank you very much!