grpc-swift VS gRPC

Compare grpc-swift vs gRPC and see what are their differences.

grpc-swift

The Swift language implementation of gRPC. (by grpc)

gRPC

The C based gRPC (C++, Python, Ruby, Objective-C, PHP, C#) (by grpc)
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grpc-swift gRPC
8 201
1,945 40,733
1.4% 1.1%
9.3 9.9
3 days ago about 14 hours ago
Swift C++
Apache License 2.0 Apache License 2.0
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grpc-swift

Posts with mentions or reviews of grpc-swift. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-19.
  • LinkedIn Adopts Protocol Buffers and Reduces Latency Up to 60%
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Jul 2023
  • Trouble building for ios device
    7 projects | /r/bazel | 23 Nov 2022
    load("@bazel_tools//tools/build_defs/repo:http.bzl", "http_archive") http_archive( name = "com_github_buildbuddy_io_rules_xcodeproj", sha256 = "564381b33261ba29e3c8f505de82fc398452700b605d785ce3e4b9dd6c73b623", url = "https://github.com/buildbuddy-io/rules_xcodeproj/releases/download/0.9.0/release.tar.gz", ) http_archive( name = "cgrindel_rules_spm", sha256 = "03718eb865a100ba4449ebcbca6d97bf6ea78fa17346ce6d55532312e8bf9aa8", strip_prefix = "rules_spm-0.11.0", url = "https://github.com/cgrindel/rules_spm/archive/v0.11.0.tar.gz", ) load( "@cgrindel_rules_spm//spm:defs.bzl", "spm_pkg", "spm_repositories", ) load( "@cgrindel_rules_spm//spm:deps.bzl", "spm_rules_dependencies", ) spm_rules_dependencies() load( "@com_github_buildbuddy_io_rules_xcodeproj//xcodeproj:repositories.bzl", "xcodeproj_rules_dependencies", ) xcodeproj_rules_dependencies() load( "@build_bazel_rules_apple//apple:repositories.bzl", "apple_rules_dependencies", ) apple_rules_dependencies() load( "@build_bazel_rules_swift//swift:repositories.bzl", "swift_rules_dependencies", ) swift_rules_dependencies() load( "@build_bazel_rules_swift//swift:extras.bzl", "swift_rules_extra_dependencies", ) swift_rules_extra_dependencies() load( "@build_bazel_apple_support//lib:repositories.bzl", "apple_support_dependencies", ) apple_support_dependencies() spm_repositories( name = "swift_pkgs", platforms = [ ".macOS(.v10_15)", ], dependencies = [ spm_pkg( url = "https://github.com/apple/swift-log.git", exact_version = "1.4.2", products = ["Logging"], ), spm_pkg( url = "https://github.com/pointfreeco/swift-composable-architecture.git", exact_version = "0.43.0", products = ["ComposableArchitecture"], ), spm_pkg( name = "Bow", url = "https://github.com/bow-swift/bow.git", exact_version = "0.8.0", products = ["Bow", "BowEffects", "BowOptics"], ), spm_pkg( url = "https://github.com/grpc/grpc-swift.git", exact_version = "1.7.3", products = ["GRPC"], ), spm_pkg( url = "https://github.com/hyperoslo/Cache", exact_version = "6.0.0", products = ["Cache"], ), ], )
  • anyone has used grpc in iOS app?
    1 project | /r/iOSProgramming | 3 Jul 2022
    Did you have a look at examples on grpc-swift ?
  • Considering gRPC-C++ for an iOS project
    2 projects | /r/iOSProgramming | 19 Feb 2022
    You don’t want to use the Swift version?
  • Fullstack grpc tutorials?
    1 project | /r/iOSProgramming | 24 Oct 2021
    The Basic Tutorial or examples from the gRPG-Swift repository might be useful to you as well.
  • Application design: communication from Rust to another language
    5 projects | /r/rust | 20 Jul 2021
    At the moment I would recommend gRPC for Swift and Rust, even though in general gRPC drives me insane, it is currently the most convenient choice. Use tonic for the Rust server-side, and grpc-swift for the client-side. I've had quite a lot of success with this in the past.
  • gRPC Implementation in Swift
    1 project | /r/swift | 4 Jun 2021
  • REST vs. gRPC vs. GraphQL
    10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Mar 2021
    Swift is at least supported via Objective-C, and swift-grpc looks solid https://github.com/grpc/grpc-swift

gRPC

Posts with mentions or reviews of gRPC. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-03.
  • Golang: out-of-box backpressure handling with gRPC, proven by a Grafana dashboard
    4 projects | dev.to | 3 Apr 2024
    gRPC, built on HTTP/2, inherently supports flow control. The server can push updates, but it must also respect flow control signals from the client, ensuring that it doesn't send data faster than what the client can handle.
  • Reverse Engineering Protobuf Definitions from Compiled Binaries
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Mar 2024
    Yes, grpc_cli tool uses essentially the same mechanism except implemented as a grpc service rather than as a stubby service. The basic principle of both is implementing the C++ proto library's DescriptorDatabase interface with cached recursive queries of (usually) the server's compiled in FileDescriptorProtos.

    See also https://github.com/grpc/grpc/blob/master/doc/server-reflecti...

    The primary difference between what grpc does and what stubby does is that grpc uses a stream to ensure that the reflection requests all go to the same server to avoid incompatible version skew and duplicate proto transmissions. With that said, in practice version skew is rarely a problem for grpc_cli style "issue a single RPC" usecases: even if requests do go to two or more different versions of a binary that might have incompatible proto graphs, it is very common for the request and response and RPC to all be in the same proto file so you only need to make one RPC in the first place unless you're using an extension mechanism like proto2 extensions or google.protobuf.Any.

  • Delving Deeper: Enriching Microservices with Golang with CloudWeGo
    7 projects | dev.to | 22 Feb 2024
    While gRPC and Apache Thrift have served the microservice architecture well, CloudWeGo's advanced features and performance metrics set it apart as a promising open source solution for the future.
  • gRPC Name Resolution & Load Balancing on Kubernetes: Everything you need to know (and probably a bit more)
    5 projects | dev.to | 6 Feb 2024
    The loadBalancingConfig is what we use in order to decide which policy to go for (round_robin in this case). This JSON representation is based on a protobuf message, then why does the name resolver returns it in the JSON format? The main reason is that loadBalancingConfig is a oneof field inside the proto message and so it can not contain values unknown to the gRPC if used in the proto format. The JSON representation does not have this requirement so we can use a custom loadBalancingConfig .
  • Dart on the Server: Exploring Server-Side Dart Technologies in 2024
    4 projects | dev.to | 30 Jan 2024
    The Dart implementation of gRPC which puts mobile and HTTP/2 first. It's built and maintained by the Dart team. gRPC is a high-performance RPC (remote procedure call) framework that is optimized for efficient data transfer.
  • Usando Spring Boot RestClient
    4 projects | dev.to | 30 Jan 2024
  • How to Build & Deploy Scalable Microservices with NodeJS, TypeScript and Docker || A Comprehesive Guide
    13 projects | dev.to | 25 Jan 2024
    gRPC is a high-performance, open-source RPC (Remote Procedure Call) framework initially developed by Google. It uses Protocol Buffers for serialization and supports bidirectional streaming.
  • Actual SSH over HTTPS
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Dec 2023
    In general, tunneling through HTTP2 turns out to be a great choice. There is a RPC protocol built on top of HTTP2: gRPC[1].

    This is because HTTP2 is great at exploiting a TCP connection to transmit and receive multiple data structures concurrently - multiplexing.

    There may not be a reason to use HTTP3 however, as QUIC already provides multiplexing.

    I expect that in the future most communications will be over encrypted HTTP2 and QUIC simply because middleware creators can not resist to discriminate.

    [1] <https://grpc.io>

  • Why gRPC is not natively supported by Browsers
    1 project | dev.to | 17 Dec 2023
    Even in the https://grpc.io blog says this
  • SGSG (Svelte + Go + SQLite + gRPC) - open source application
    5 projects | /r/sveltejs | 6 Dec 2023
    gRPC

What are some alternatives?

When comparing grpc-swift and gRPC you can also consider the following projects:

grpc-web - gRPC for Web Clients

ZeroMQ - ZeroMQ core engine in C++, implements ZMTP/3.1

hasura-cms - Automatically exposed GraphQL API via Hasura with schema + permissions for GraphCMS-like handling of content types

Apache Thrift - Apache Thrift

grpc-over-webrtc - gRPC over WebRTC

Cap'n Proto - Cap'n Proto serialization/RPC system - core tools and C++ library

json-api - A specification for building JSON APIs

zeroRPC - zerorpc for python

cffi - Safe* C foreign function interface for Rust, using proc macros and marshaling types.

rpclib - rpclib is a modern C++ msgpack-RPC server and client library

graphql-code-generator - A tool for generating code based on a GraphQL schema and GraphQL operations (query/mutation/subscription), with flexible support for custom plugins.

nanomsg - nanomsg library