We are currently working towards an initial stable release of the project. This is tracked on the Initial Stable Release project board, and consists of these main high-level milestones:
- Thrift compilation.
- Tools project to automate compilation.
- Runtime library.
- Instrumentation.
- Linting and formatting.
At this stage we'll just aim to produce code that's compatible with Apache's Thrift library. The compiler should report any errors sensibly, and should be able to generate any thrift code.
At this stage we'll create a Tools project, similar to grpc.Tools, that is able to automatically compile any thrift IDL files when added to a C# project.
At this stage we'll implement a new Thrift .NET runtime library. This will remove any dependency on Apache's implementation, and will also allow us to alter the generated code to suit ourselves if necessary.
This will also include adding the code necessary to make it easy to implement Thrift services in ASP.NET and ASP.NET Core.
At this stage we'll provide points that people can hook into for logging and metrics, and provide a library that add Prometheus metrics out the box.
At this stage we'll define a style guide, and extend the Thrift compiler to analyse the code for style violations, and provide the ability to automatically fix them.