[troyk]

We are sharing your sentiment that a lot of our user-facing errors could be limited by moving away from weak typing (current stack is Ruby). In hindsight, did Go and protobuf prove well, we are evaluating Go and possible Elixir as a sweet spot between static and dynamic typing.

[philip1209]

Yes. I would always use gRPC-gateway in the future. It's an amazing library. Check out the `protobuf` folder - we basically defined the whole api there in a language-agnostic way. For client libraries, you can autogenerate gRPC definitions quickly. For servers, gRPC-gateway provides a Swagger definition that meant that we always had 100% up to date API docs that include a Postman-style way to execute calls. The auto-generated API docs sped up front-end development so much.

I think that access to the docs requires logging in, so here are some screenshots: http://imgur.com/a/R0AvB

Jason Chen is using Elixer/Phoenix for his new project, by the way, and thinks that it's the future for Rails developers.

[troyk]

gRPC-gateway looks very attractive. Thank you for posting this for the rest of us to learn from, a brilliant effort for sure.

[philip1209]

Its documentation is horrible for getting started. Lmk if you have issues.