[pkieltyka]

I prefer twirp's model of no http2 requirement and supports JSON. https://github.com/twitchtv/twirp

I do think twirp code could be refactored and made a lot better though.

[stock_toaster]

If twirp had more existing backend implementations, I would certainly use it for more things.

[zbentley]

Check out Thrift: https://thrift.apache.org/