[jtbaker]

Buf.build, never again. Had a proto evangelist get us ingratiated into their system a few years ago and then they introduced a bunch of rent seeking behavior just to be able to to the code generation, and getting it ripped out was a huge PITA. https://github.com/betterproto/python-betterproto2 was a decent (async, type hinted) python implementation last I checked.

[jdpedrie]

You can use their CLI and registry for free. I agree that their paid offerings are crazy expensive, but it's simple to just commit your protos in your monorepo (or a proto repo), install buf, create buf.gen.yaml with a few language plugins, and you're up and running. All the pain of protoc is handled. It's been a massive improvement in usability since they came along.

[Scaevolus]

if you happen to regenerate your protos 5 times in an hour you'll get ratelimited

it's a very frustrating system. you should spend a modicum of effort figuring out how to generate your things locally yourself instead, be that docker, arcane wasm...