[talkingtab]

This was never worth it. From the beginning. Large corporations like Google try to lock developers into technology. They try to promote themselves as cool tech to job applicants. For example .NET from Microsoft, Swift from Apple, on and on. There are a few examples of good stuff coming out, but in general just say no...

And certainly if you want to get a job at one of these places, learn their technology, but then once even that company stops using it, where are you?

[skybrian]

It locks you into a well-documented protocol, implemented by open source software?

[jauntywundrkind]

We should remain forever free, no chains on us, reinventing our own ad-hoc means of communication internally at each company! /s

[johannes1234321]

One may argue about the reasons for (publishing) gRPC, but for .NET and swift the purpose was clear: They want to provide attractive options for developing applications on their respective platforms. If they succeeded is somewhat subjective. But I don't see what's bad about it, for the people who like their platforms.

[pathartl]

So we should just never use some framework?