[kentonv]

I don't see Buf's play as being about scale or performance, but rather developer experience. I think that that with the right tooling, the developer experience of strong schemas with code generators can far surpass JSON/REST. If that happens then the performance/scalability benefit is just a bonus.

Will people pay for it? That's not my area of expertise. But, I would note that Vagrant started out as a collection of Ruby scripts for wrangling existing VM products, which probably few people imagined would be something people would pay for. And just this morning, Hashicorp went public at a market cap of $18.5B. It is possible to build a business around developer tools. Not easy, certainly, but possible.

> I hope you don't have a lot of capital locked in this

Like any intelligent angel investor, I always assume I'll lose 100% of my investment and size them appropriately.

[tlackemann]

I wasn't really talking about Buf at scale but rather how gRPC is just a buzzword technology that companies get sucked into adopting for the sake of "scale". I've yet to see gRPC used in a way that makes sense - it's just added complexity for an org that should've been a monolith to begin with.

Maybe I'm an old curmudgeon but I don't see the point, at all.