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by mad_vill 1298 days ago
The lack of detailed documentation for grpc is pretty crazy considering how many people seem to be using it.

So many hours wasted investigating fringe http2 characteristics causing odd bugs on the platform.

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It is so bad.

Outside of Go (I assume because it seems pretty popular there) the clients for other languages are so hit and miss.

I had to pipe a json into the python client to configure a grpc client (which seems bad) and it took me a while to dig up the correct incantation.

I like the "contract" that GRPC implies but I am not sure I would choose it again.

Try twirp! Same protos for contracts, but everything is much simpler , saner and slimmer , and just uses standard http. It’s great.