Details
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Improvement
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Status: Open
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Minor
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Resolution: Unresolved
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Description
Thrift has a support for C language called c_glib. This generator creates a stub for C language that uses glib library. glib library is quite a heavy dependency and for some cases (like low level software) is not acceptable. One needs a generator that does not have any dependencies to third-party libs and ideally neither to libc.
nanopb project tries to achieve it for Protobufs. It would be great to see something similar for Thrift. Here is more information about nanopb http://jpa.kapsi.fi/nanopb/docs/concepts.html
There is an attempt to implement such generator for Thrift https://github.com/markrileybot/thrift-nano but it might require additional efforts to make the implementation complete and up-to-date.