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by tantalor 720 days ago
RPC/proto is for transport.

Required/validation is for application.
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returningfory2 720 days ago
If that's true, why have types in proto at all? Shouldn't everything be an "any" type at the transport layer, and the application can validate the types are correct?
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usrnm 720 days ago
Different types can and do use different encodings
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