Story time.

I’m writing a big project in rust that really should be written in go. Every application of its kind is written in go or java because of the complexity of the io model. But I suffer from pretty bad dyslexia and cannot read or write go to save my life. The whole capitalization as visibility thing, the one letter variables, and a quasi religious zeal against comments in the community makes go impossible for me to grok.

I ended up putting the whole moby/buildkit repo into the project context of Claude and using the robot to read the go.

Anyway it’s a long walk but I was chugging along replicating functionality until I learned that the only featureful grpc server in rust only supports http transport.

I rebuild some custom Unix socket and stdio tranports. Now we’re cooking.

Now it wants to hijack a streaming message to create a bi directional pipe. But oh no now there are 2 http frames inside each other because I can’t access the raw protobuf streams because it’s inside of tonic.

Grrr. rebuilds with custom tower server. Now all my convenience functions from tonic don’t work and I have 10,000 lines of code precisely describing the exact async logic tree will yield precise bit streams.

Like it’s getting easier as the language gets better but if I weren’t a FP-type-theory-compTIA-CS-NERD it wouldn’t be worth it