fbthrift

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  "github_readme_excerpt": "Facebook Thrift\n---------------\n\n[![Linux Build Status](\n  https://github.com/facebook/fbthrift/actions/workflows/getdeps_linux.yml/badge.svg)](\n  https://github.com/facebook/fbthrift/actions/workflows/getdeps_linux.yml)\n[![macOS Build Status](\n  https://github.com/facebook/fbthrift/actions/workflows/getdeps_mac.yml/badge.svg)](\n  https://github.com/facebook/fbthrift/actions/workflows/getdeps_mac.yml)\n[![Windows Build Status](\n  https://github.com/facebook/fbthrift/actions/workflows/getdeps_windows.yml/badge.svg)](\n  https://github.com/facebook/fbthrift/actions/workflows/getdeps_windows.yml)\n[![Python Build Status](\n  https://github.com/facebook/fbthrift/actions/workflows/getdeps_python_linux_container.yml/badge.svg)](\n  https://github.com/facebook/fbthrift/actions/workflows/getdeps_python_linux_container.yml)\n[![Python Build Status (no container)](\n  https://github.com/facebook/fbthrift/actions/workflows/getdeps_python_linux.yml/badge.svg)](\n  https://github.com/facebook/fbthrift/actions/workflows/getdeps_python_linux.yml)\n\u003cimg src=\"thrift/doc/logo.svg\"\n     alt=\"Facebook Thrift Logo\" align=\"right\" width=\"20%\"/\u003e\n\nThrift is a serialization and RPC framework for service communication. Thrift enables these features in all major languages, and there is strong support for C++, Python, Hack, and Java. Most services at Facebook are written using Thrift for RPC, and some storage systems use Thrift for serializing records on disk.\n\nFacebook Thrift is not a distribution of [Apache Thrift](https://thrift.apache.org/). This is an evolved internal branch of Thrift that Facebook re-released to the open source community in February 2014. Facebook Thrift was originally released closely tracking Apache Thrift but is now evolving in new directions. In particular, the compiler was rewritten from scratch and the new implementation features a fully asynchronous Thrift server. Read more about these improvements in the [ThriftServer documentation](https://github.com/facebook/fbthrift/blo",
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  "why_use_this": "Use fbthrift to build RPC services with efficient binary serialization across C++, Python, Java, and Hack\u2014it\u0027s what powers most services at Facebook. It\u0027s primarily a build dependency and code-generation tool; the modern C++ server runtime (based on Wangle) offers better async/coroutine support than Apache Thrift. Choose this over stock Thrift if you need newer C++ idioms or are already in the Meta/Facebook ecosystem."
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