Brainstorming: RPC improvements

[Davidson-Souza]

There are a couple of things we need to improve in the current RPC server:

• The server lib used here is no longer maintained, we need to go for something else (or implement by ourselves)
• More RPCs
• Make RPCs that have the same name as Core, behave like Core's. This will help with integrating with other software
• (Something else?)

[Kixunil]

You might want to consider something like capnproto to make integrations easier. It also has some nice features that could improve performance.

[Davidson-Souza]

You might want to consider something like capnproto to make integrations easier. It also has some nice features that could improve performance.

I do want to add something better than json. The problem is that some people would like to have a drop-in replacement for core's RPC, which is json-based.

[Kixunil]

Yes, drop-in replacement is useful. It can have both interfaces or the replacement can be an additional service translating the calls.