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In those client things the amount of the code that can be moved into a cross-language shared library might be lower than expected. E.g. the wire protocol and socket handling might be an option - but it's often not that big.

The bigger part might be transformation of the programming languages types into something useful for the client (e.g. through serialization), which has be be redone anyway for each language. And after that the question comes up whether sharing the remaining things yields enough benefits to justify the hassle of having a dependency which is less portable, requires another build system, etc.

That's my general experience with those kinds of projects - I don't know enough about RavenDB in particular to tell if it's the same here.




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