The Gram Code Editor - 2026-10-03

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I can see why you wanna get rid of protobuf hehe

yeah protobuf and aws-lc-sys.. if I can get rid of those two that would make a massive difference

I'm taking a stab at replacing protobuf with postcard by the way. No idea if it'll work but I have all the message types defined in terms of rust now at least...

It'll probably be a massive PR which touches a lot because my structs will necessarily be different from the ones protobuf generates. Might end up being unmergable due to the amount of churn, or I might give up. But it might be valuable as an experiment still

woah, nice! I started looking at it too but got distracted pretty quick. But then I’ll let you have a go at it 👍

https://codeberg.org/GramEditor/gram/pulls/608 I created a draft MR so that the progress is visible

> https://upload.yax.im/upload/SZwfxV0iMgQ_QkK-5Zb4py9E/Screenshot%202026-10-03%20at%2012.35.13.jpg WOAH

WHAT IS THAT :0

Protobuf 😛

Google tech.. XD

Yeah seriously

I work on a C++ project which uses GRPC and it's such a pain, it's the only library in the world which changes its ABI based on whether you compile with asan enabled or not

So when you get GRPC from your package manager (i.e compiled with address sanitizer disabled), you can't then compile your project with ASan enabled

To work around this I once tried building my own GRPC but it's *massive* and depends on relatively specific versions of roughly the entire world so I gave up lol

pre-AI slop…

Huh both the remote crate and the rpc crate parses byte buffers into messages, I expected this to happen in just one place

@mort ooh I see that your PR doesn't have the latest changes.. yesterday I cleaned up a bunch of rpc code that was left over from the old proprietary remote collaboration, and I think at least some of that duplication is gone now.. there was a whole unused websocket-based collaboration thing there

I'm sure there is a lot left to remove still

> Protobuf 😛 i meant what are you using to see compile time for each thing-

@krig Ah I didn't realise all that RPC websocket stuff was unused! Rebased now

has anyone run a linting tool on the source code, or check for _name variables?

What about _name variables? As in unused variables?

yea :3 i've never compiled gram from source, so i'm not sure if there are any!