i imagine gRPC is less plaintext friendly, which might be one of the reasons why it's less popular as public apis tend to be as agnostic and easy to start with as possible.
Tho i think it's just a cultural, rather than a technical blockage. REST just has more mindshare, and web developers (who make up the majority of devs using public apis) are pushing JSON based REST as the default.
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i imagine gRPC is less plaintext friendly, which might be one of the reasons why it's less popular as public apis tend to be as agnostic and easy to start with as possible.
Tho i think it's just a cultural, rather than a technical blockage. REST just has more mindshare, and web developers (who make up the majority of devs using public apis) are pushing JSON based REST as the default.