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by IshKebab 1417 days ago
I agree. HTTP/2 is a huge requirement to push everywhere you want to use RPC. Want to do RPC to a microcontroller? Tough luck. Want to make RPC calls from a web page? Yeah have fun figuring out the two incompatible gRPC-web systems, setting up complicated proxies and actually finding a gRPC library that actually supports them fully.

Thrift has a much more sane design where everything is pluggable including the transport layer.

Bit of a shame that Thrift never became more popular.