LANGUAGES.md

Apache Thrift Language Support

Last Modified: 2018-12-17

Guidance For: 0.12.0 or later

Thrift supports many programming languages and has an impressive test suite that exercises most of the languages, protocols, and transports that represents a matrix of thousands of possible combinations. Each language typically has a minimum required version as well as support libraries - some mandatory and some optional. All of this information is provided below to help you assess whether you can use Apache Thrift with your project. Obviously this is a complex matrix to maintain and may not be correct in all cases - if you spot an error please inform the developers using the mailing list.

Apache Thrift has a choice of two build systems. The autoconf build system is the most complete build and is used to build all supported languages. The cmake build system has been designated by the project to replace autoconf however this transition will take quite some time to complete.

The Language/Library Levels indicate the minimum and maximum versions that are used in the continuous integration environments (Appveyor, Travis) for Apache Thrift. Other language levels may be supported for each language, however tested less thoroughly; check the README file inside each lib directory for additional details. Note that while a language may contain support for protocols, transports, and servers, the extent to which each is tested as part of the overall build process varies. The definitive integration test for the project is called the "cross" test which executes a test matrix with clients and servers communicating across languages.

Language	Since	Build Systems		Lang/Lib Levels (Tested)		Low-Level Transports						Transport Wrappers			Protocols				Servers					Open Issues
		autoconf	cmake	Min	Max	Domain	File	Memory	Pipe	Socket	TLS	Framed	http	zlib	Binary	Compact	JSON	Multiplex	Forking	Nonblocking	Simple	Threaded	ThreadPool
ActionScript	0.3.0			FLEX SDK 4.6																				ActionScript
C (glib)	0.6.0			2.48.2	2.56.0																			C (glib)
C++	0.2.0			C++98 (through 0.12.0)	C++11 (after 0.12.0)																			C++
C#	0.2.0			.NET 3.5 / mono 3.2.8.0	.NET 4.6.1 / mono 4.6.2.7																			C# (.NET)
Cocoa	0.2.0			unknown																				Cocoa
Common LISP	0.12.0			SBCL 1.4.5	SBCL 1.4.15																			Common LISP
Dlang	0.9.0			2.075.1	2.083.2																			D
Dart	0.10.0			1.22.1	1.24.3																			Dart
Delphi	0.8.0			2010	unknown																			Delphi
.NET Core	0.11.0			2.1.4	2.2.101																			.NET Core
Erlang	0.3.0			18.3	20.0.4																			Erlang
Go	0.7.0			1.7.6	1.11.4																			Go
Haskell	0.5.0			7.10.3	8.0.2																			Haskell
Haxe	0.9.3			3.2.1	3.4.4																			Haxe
Java (SE)	0.2.0			1.8.0_151	1.8.0_191																			Java SE
Java (ME)	0.5.0			unknown																				Java ME
Javascript	0.3.0			unknown																				Javascript
Lua	0.9.2			5.1.5	5.2.4																			Lua
node.js	0.6.0			6.x	8.x																			node.js
node.ts	0.12.0			3.1.6																				node.ts
OCaml	0.2.0			4.04.0																				OCaml
Perl	0.2.0			5.22.1	5.26.1																			Perl
PHP	0.2.0			7.0.22	7.2.10																			PHP
Python	0.2.0			2.7.12, 3.5.2	2.7.15rc1, 3.6.7																			Python
Ruby	0.2.0			2.3.1p112	2.5.1p57																			Ruby
Rust	0.11.0			1.17.0	1.30.0																			Rust
Smalltalk	0.2.0			unknown																				Smalltalk
Swift	0.12.0			4.2.1																				Swift
Language	Since	autoconf	cmake	Min	Max	Domain	File	Memory	Pipe	Socket	TLS	Framed	http	zlib	Binary	Compact	JSON	Multiplex	Forking	Nonblocking	Simple	Threaded	ThreadPool	Open Issues
		Build Systems		Lang/Lib Levels (Tested)		Low-Level Transports						Transport Wrappers			Protocols				Servers