added RPC to Concepts

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# RPC
With the help of dark and badly documented magic also known as "macros", we can create quickly create remote procedure call Classes to call functions on other
computers. A problem that arises is that since all data gets send over the network that we kinda lose the type safty. We cloud trust ourself to cast
the result of the request to the right type or we cloud just make use of macros. The RPC macro will create a RPC class that implements all functions of an
interface just that the return type is wrapped in a Promise. Now if we call a function of that RPC class it fires a request to the other computer and waits
for a response. On the other side the service makes use of that generated package handle function for the RPC class.
A simple example:
```haxe
interface IExampleRPC {
function addNumber(a:Int, b:Int):Int;
}
@:build(macros.rpc.RPC.buildRPC(IExampleRPC))
class ExampleRPC extends RPCBase {}
@:build(macros.Binstore.includeBin("Example SRV", ["example-srv"]))
class ExampleService implements IProcess implements IExampleRPC {
private var handle:ProcessHandle;
public function new() {}
public function run(handle:ProcessHandle) {
this.handle = handle;
kernel.net.Net.registerProto("example", (pack) -> {
ExampleRPC.handlePackage(this, pack);
});
}
public function addNumber(a:Int, b:Int):Int {
return a + b;
}
}
// ...
var rpc = new ExampleRPC(12,"example");
rpc.addNumber(3,7).handle((p)->{
switch p {
case Success(r):
Log.info('3+7=$r');
case Failure(err):
Log.error('Error: $err');
}
});
```