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Re:Connect-Web: TypeScript library for calling RPC servers f... by rektide on Thursday August 04, 2022 @11:07PM (#32351080)
I love the idea of a more http-native protocol, and I think ya'll are doing saintly work, and I hope observability tools close remaining gaps fast.

I still think we're a little short on candor though. Streams are a bitch in grpc. I have a very very hard time believing plain-old http observability is going to be good enough to help me make sense of multiple cross-directional streams stemming from a single request. gRPC just has a lot to it. Being more plain http-centric is applause worthy. But grpc has too much going on for plain http support to be enough, when it comes to really pleasant observability & tooling.

I dont want to discourage but I dont see how we could expect tl have near as good an experience as what great real grpc tooling supports. I love these workarounds to browser enable, but they have real tradeoffs & sacrifices. That alas the browser hss forced us all into by it's utter lack of giving a shit, caring, doing anything good with making http useful to us.

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