I guess what I'm really asking is: is there a pure python client for ZeroMQ so that a pythonista-based app can send and receive messages in a ZeroMQ messaging system?
Since pythonista doesn't come with the zmq library installed, it means there would have to be a pure-python zmq substitute out there? Right? Unless I'm missing something.
Has anyone played around with ZeroMQ via pythonista before?
@shinyformica, long time no see.
Never done anything or even heard about ZeroMQ, really.
... but Google gave me this, old and not maintained, but maybe you can fork it and make it better?
@mikael thanks, haven't had much time recently. Rest assured, the pythonista-based stuff I've been building is still going strong. In fact, its inherent stability has impressed everyone.
I did google it, and saw that library...but I'm very very wary of using an old, unsupported thing like that. Was hoping someone here might have a better solution. Perhaps I should ping @olemoritz himself? See if we can get zmq included in the next pythonista release.
@shinyformica, I would not base any critical development plans on it being included in the app, given that it joins a rather long queue of serious updates.
Would you be willing to share on a high level what it was you built? Just curious.
@mikael yeah, we won't be expecting anything specific from Pythonista development. We'll probably go with something like RabbitMQ which doesn't require any compiled library extensions.
Unfortunately I can't really say anything about what I'm working on here...suffice it to say that we have to rapidly respond to client requests in an environment where development isn't macOS-based, is almost entirely python and c++, but still needed to be able to build interfaces for iOS. Pythonista checked those boxes very nicely.
If @olemoritz is listening, he should know just how good this app is.