[jxi]

I was so excited for gRPC when it came out because it meant having strongly typed APIs and auto-generated clients, but two things made it horrible to use: requiring http/2 (so you couldn’t use most load balancers at the time) and the generated clients were unpleasant to use (you couldn’t just return an object to serialize, you had to conform to their streaming model).

[mcfedr]

Checkout Twirp, you get the good parts, protobufs and generated code, but its supports regular http, by no including streaming.

https://github.com/twitchtv/twirp