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For now, Liaison is JS-focused. So both the frontend and the backend have to be implemented in JS.

But the communication protocol (https://deepr.io) in between is language agnostic. So it is possible to imagine Liaison being ported to different languages in the future.

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I've been thinking about language agnostic RPC as well. That would be so neat!

gRPC can already do that but gRPC's design is unnecessary bloated. The nice thing about RPC is its potential of zero-config setup. gRPC totally fails on that and it's painful to setup gRPC.

The RoR/python server could be used to automatically serve the RPC API. For a zero-config setup.

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