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Re:Etcd, or, why modern software makes me sad by kentonv on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @10:30AM (#23845683)
> The only compelling alternative to gRPC I am aware of is capnproto (which is derivative, but in some ways nicer)

I would argue that while Cap'n Proto's serialization is derivative of Protobuf, the RPC protocol is wildly different from gRPC.

> but it has far less eco system maturity and mindshare.

That's certainly true.

(I'm the author of Cap'n Proto.)

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Re:Etcd, or, why modern software makes me sad by patrec on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @01:57PM (#23849009)
Yes, sorry I was imprecise, it would have been better to have written "derivative of protobuf". To the extent the RPC part is derivative, it's probably mostly derivative of E?
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Re:Etcd, or, why modern software makes me sad by kentonv on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @07:48PM (#23853923)
Yep, that I will agree with!
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