Ravi Shankar

Btw, @mambisi has brought it to my attention going through the FFI route will not be as easy as it sounds because we won't get the context from substrate outside...

> Does this also mean instead of starting up MetaChain, we could also provide an URL with a port number? I didn't have this in mind, but it shouldn't be...

Might need further clarification here. If we pass RPC URL, then defid doesn't need to have prepackaged metachain, in which case we can get rid of linking to libmetachain dependency...

Protobuf offers strict typing and aids versioning for various messages used in RPC calls, so we decided to have a protobuf spec which represents the existing JSON RPC implementation and...

It should be noted that this doesn't change anything in metachain (the incoming RPC request will still be JSON) - it's only a matter of how we decided to go...

> Sounds good! Do we have an integration timeline for this? As for the protobuf-based RPC client code, the work is already in place, it's just a matter of fixing...

> The only doubt/question I have is the operational workflow of running the new "defid" and communicating that with our partners is quite a challenge. The end-goal north-star would be...

As far as I can recall, we walk through the types only once at the start and we can't infer anything useful from dynamic objects (like HttpResponse). Would be worth...

Um sorry, actix-web has proc macros???

Oh nice! I never knew. I'll schedule that for 0.4.0.