[matrix87]

> The wire protocol is not type safe. It has type tags, but they reuse the same tags for multiple datatypes.

When is this ever an issue in practice? Why would the client read int32 but then all of a sudden decide to read uint32?

[sagarm]

I guess backwards incompatible changes to the protocol? But yeah, don't do that if you're using protobuf; it's intentionally not robust to it.