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Some public information on what MSFT is doing today: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/catapult/

More information here: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/catapult/

Very interesting. We use Boost.Python to provide Python binding for Bond [0]. It works well but having something lighter weight would is great. One big issue with Boost.Python is l…

The Design and Evolution of C++ [1] [1] http://www.stroustrup.com/dne.html

Vim plugin Fugitive [1] effectively allows editing files in index. [1] http://vimcasts.org/episodes/fugitive-vim-working-with-the-g...

You are right, it is compile-time reflection, which I think is the most interesting one for C++.

There is a really interesting proposal to add reflection to the language: N4447 [1] (N3951 before). The idea is based on an observation that C++ already sort of has reflection-like…

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc753194.aspx Or does Dropbox not support symlinks on Windows?

Whether you like Go or not depends on whether you think of software development as engineering or as craft.

JSON [1][2] (in fact text-based protocols in general) is also first-class in Bond (Microsoft's framework similar to ProtoBuf). [1] https://microsoft.github.io/bond/manual/bond_cpp.…

(Most of) Microsoft.

Bond has 3 ways of working with serialized payloads: 1) Simple deserialization where an object is fully materialized. This is the simplest (you write your business logic against id…

Our compiler/codegen [1] is all written in Haskell. That's a very significant part of Bond, but I wouldn't say that "everything else is just client libraries". All currently suppor…

I think private offices are better for collaboration too. When I don't worry about distracting everyone around me I feel much freer to engage in a long discussion with one or two o…

I think your points are valid, especially about wire format compatibility. Bond and Thrift are in fact close enough that providing Thrift compatibility is a real possibility. It wa…

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8868045

There's been a lot of questions on how Bond compares to Protobuf, Thrift and Avro. I tried to put some information at this page: http://microsoft.github.io/bond/why_bond.html

1) I didn't do a good job explaining this. You are right that if you want to materialize an object during deserialization you need to know a schema at build time to generate your c…

Cross-language support in such frameworks takes a lot of effort. Whenever you add a new language you really hit the classic 80-20 problem. We have support for a few more languages …

There are two advantages to generating code at runtime: 1) In some scenarios you have information at runtime that allows you do generate much faster code. The canonical example is …

You need Haskell only to build the Bond compiler. Once you do that, you get a native, stand-alone executable for your system (you don't need Haskell to run the Bond compiler). You …

We are planning to release cross-platform RPC support but it just wasn't ready yet and we didn't want hold up the core release for it.