[aisofteng]

Impressive effort. I’m sure you looked at it, so I’m curious why not use gRPC? To avoid HTTP?

[kstenerud]

I've looked at all of the protocols out there, and the short reason list is one or more of:

* they're too chatty.

* They waste too much on overhead.

* their bidirectional support is poor.

* Their asynchronous support is poor.

* They can't multiplex across multiple connections.