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I've used it for marshalling data and it's worked quite well for us. I did not use grpc, though.

Perhaps my use case was far more simple.

Protobuf is rarely the issue, it's always grpc. If you see someone complaining about protobuf it's almost always because they used grpc. You can see it in this thread plain to see. Anyone who used it on its own is happy with it.

Yeah, I've used protobufs in production for at least a decade but haven't ever used gRPC in anger. It's come up a few times over the years and each time I look at it I just shudder and think "nope, that's not a level of complexity this project needs"

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