Wing RPC

This repository contains a bunch of subprojects that all colectively implement wing, a lightweight RPC project/format to facilitate the communication between two or more processes.

To use Wing, you need two things:

• The wing compiler, wingc
  • It generates the relevant glue classes/enums/structs and keeps them in sync between languages for you.
• The wing library for you programming language
  • Implements the low-level bits to send data over the wire

Wing is intended to be used by native/desktop applications with the following objectives:

• Backend/frontend architecture.
• Not being a bloated mess like Electron and other webview based tech.
• It uses a pattern of sending/receiving messages.
• The backend is written in Rust.

Note that it works with whatever compiler backends are implemented right now, which is:

• Python 3
• Rust

So, you can write a python-python app no problem.

Disclaimer: This doc is a work in-progress, but I plan to elaborate further later on.

Directories

• examples/: Contains some examples/showcases of the project
• pywing-rpc: Python library that implements the necessary glue to "speak" wing-rpc
• wing-rpc: Rust crate that does the same thing
• wingc: Rust crate that implements all of the compiler's internals, including language plugins
  • It contains a binary but it is NOT the compiler!. It is used to regenerate tests!
• wingc-cli: Rust crate that thinly provides a CLI to the wingc crate. You'll need to use this to generate language glue code
  • This is what you'll want to use!