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wangle
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wangle
Wangle is a framework providing a set of common client/server abstractions for building services in a consistent, modular, and composable way.
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4 sourcesOur (facebook's) folly library has lots of components for doing stuff using fibers[1]. That sits with folly::futures[2] and wangle[3].
That said, without proper language/compiler support, though, it's difficult to make them "safe" (for some definition). Even within fb, given these libraries, we are pretty wary of using fibers with C++ unless absolutely necessary. You gotta really need it. This is where the coroutines proposals working their way through the C++ committee can make lives better.
[1] https://github.com/facebook/folly/tree/master/folly/fibers
[2] https://github.com/facebook/folly/tree/master/folly/futures
[3] https://github.com/facebook/wangle
In Parallelizing the Naughty Dog Engine Using Fibers [video]The wangle native way of doing this is just to use an IOThreadPoolExecutor: https://github.com/facebook/wangle/blob/master/wangle/concur...
Just make a block of threads to run your db tasks, and you can use a promise/future to return the results back to the async code.
In Wangle – an asynchronous C++ networking and RPC libraryI just tried to compile folly in OSX and it fails to compile with homebrew. https://github.com/facebook/folly/issues/400
Also, Once I manage to compile folly and then wangle, what kind of database drivers can I use in conjunction with this? Would I shoot myself in the foot if I use this with libpq under CPUThreadPoolExecutor?
Same with Rust and dlang, I'm not sure how to apply the freedom to have pluggable executor into something useful in real life, I think this is the main reason Golang is killing it and it keeps getting better.
For now I have my money on Go but can't wait for http://www.ponylang.org/ to become stable.
Edit: Issue reported has been closed, I can now proceed to install wangle https://github.com/facebook/folly/issues/400
Edit 2: Found another issue, this time installing wangle https://github.com/facebook/wangle/issues/37
In Wangle – an asynchronous C++ networking and RPC library