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by epgui 719 days ago
A lot of this kind of criticism rubs me the wrong way, especially complaining about having to use words or maths concepts, or having to learn new things. That's often not really a statement on the inherent virtue of a tool, and more of a statement on the familiarity of the author.

I don't want to sound flippant, but if you don't want to learn new things, don't use new tools :D
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usrnm 719 days ago
Sending a request and getting a response back is not a new concept, it's about as old as computer networks in general, and gRPC is the only framework that refers to this concept as "unary". This is the original argument from the article and I tend to agree with it
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epgui 719 days ago
Monads and functors are nothing new either, but that doesn’t mean giving them that name was a bad idea.

Moreover, the term “unary” is used to distinguish from other, non-unary options: https://grpc.io/docs/what-is-grpc/core-concepts/

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throwaway894345 719 days ago
> I don't want to sound flippant, but if you don't want to learn new things, don't use new tools :D

That's precisely the problem. The author wants to convince people (e.g., his colleagues) to use a new tool, but he has to convince them to learn a bunch of new things including a bunch of new things that aren't even necessary.

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