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by doctorpangloss 715 days ago
> gRPC is not supposed to be a standard web communication layer.

It kind of is. What do you think WebTransport in HTTP/3 is? It's basically gRPC Next. The only reason gRPC didn't make it as the standard web communication layer is because of one disastrous decision by one Chrome engineer in https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40388906, maybe because he woke up on the wrong side of the bed.
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dannyobrien 714 days ago
Can you expand on this a little? I could not work out the decision from the Chrome issue you linked to.
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mardifoufs 713 days ago
I think this blog post provides the context for that chromium discussion:

https://carlmastrangelo.com/blog/why-does-grpc-insist-on-tra...

(Somewhere in the middle of the article)

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