Mars – A cross-platform network component developed by WeChat
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Re: Mars – A cross-platform network component developed by WeChat
#2Great to see a open source project from WeChat. WeChat is extremely viral in China. I am sure there is some amazing engineering work underneath.
Re: Mars – A cross-platform network component developed by WeChat
#3Pardon my ignorance, but I tried reading through the page and could not figure out what this is or does. Can someone point me to a quick summary or overview?
Re: Mars – A cross-platform network component developed by WeChat
#4Pardon my ignorance, but I tried reading through the page and could not figure out what this is or does. Can someone point me to a quick summary or overview?
an AFNetworking/OkHttp alternative written in C++ and use socket instead of HTTP
Re: Mars – A cross-platform network component developed by WeChat
#5Great to see a open source project from WeChat. WeChat is extremely viral in China. I am sure there is some amazing engineering work underneath.
The language barrier has been their main issue, they'd definitely would love to collaborate more with teams outside of China I know. They have an astonishing amount of dev resources as well, they wrote an entire cloud platform (they're at maybe 10% of AWS) from scratch, in C.
Re: Mars – A cross-platform network component developed by WeChat
#6What is China's Super-App "WeChat" and how China is changing your Internet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-YuU3J-YV0
Re: Mars – A cross-platform network component developed by WeChat
#7Great to see a open source project from WeChat. WeChat is extremely viral in China. I am sure there is some amazing engineering work underneath.
The language barrier has been their main issue, they'd definitely would love to collaborate more with teams outside of China I know. They have an astonishing amount of dev resources as well, they wrote an entire cloud platform (they're at maybe 10% of AWS) from scratch, in C.
> entire cloud platform (they're at maybe 10% of AWS) from scratch, in C
Impressive. Any link to this? I'd love to take a look.
Re: Mars – A cross-platform network component developed by WeChat
#8This looks like a cross between OkHTTP and a jobqueue (like https://github.com/WhisperSystems/jobmanager or https://github.com/yigit/android-priority-jobqueue).
But I think this is the first cross platform framework that does this.
Re: Mars – A cross-platform network component developed by WeChat
#9Pardon my ignorance, but I tried reading through the page and could not figure out what this is or does. Can someone point me to a quick summary or overview?
an AFNetworking/OkHttp alternative written in C++ and use socket instead of HTTP
So id could be used to avoid proxy capturing your requests?
Re: Mars – A cross-platform network component developed by WeChat
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
The language barrier has been their main issue, they'd definitely would love to collaborate more with teams outside of China I know. They have an astonishing amount of dev resources as well, they wrote an entire cloud platform (they're at maybe 10% of AWS) from scratch, in C.
> entire cloud platform (they're at maybe 10% of AWS) from scratch, in C Impressive. Any link to this? I'd love to take a look.
Their public cloud is http://qcloud.com/, I don't think everything they've written on the backend is public however.