[kenhwang]

All the protobuf implementations I've worked with (especially protoc descendents) just feels like they wrapped the C implementation with some FFI and called it a day. They're all ugly and unidiomatic. So it's not exactly a high bar to meet.

[malkia]

For my needs, I'm ignoring the "ugly" bits. I'm looking for statically typed checks - e.g. avoid spelling errors. Also discoverability - e.g. start typing the name of your service press "." and it gives you the options, then Alt+Space and what you can provide - it's really easy with C# And Visual Studio.

That to be said, it's really ugly as an API.

[indolering]

I've heard of similar quality issues with other RPC libraries (either Thrift or Avro, I can't remember which). In my cross-language work, everything becomes very functional and non-idiomatic due to the overhead.