Recommended way to use a python backend from a c#-application

Question

I have an old windows forms gui used to control a custom measurement system. Originally, it handled acquisition, calculating, database handling and presentation of measurements.

Now, because of some hardware changes, the system got its own arm based microcontroller running a linux os.

So I re-implemented most control features in python, including handling of our database and raw data. (Originally, everything was stored locally now it’s on a little server)

Now I still want to use our old gui to handle presentation so I thought of using some of my python implemented functions inside the gui application (C#). What would be the best/recommended way to do this?

Ideally, I want to use the gui for nothing more than displaying data and use the python routines to access the data itself on the server.

Answer 1

gRPC might be a good fit for this as it will be pretty performant and fairly lightweight. Alternatives include queues and even unix sockets.