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Fair enough

Although this might have some external implications, most of GCP does not rely on gRPC, even the external customers are not usually dependent on gRPC when using Google services.

Correct me if I'm wrong but gcloud uses REST and so do the libraries google publishes for using GCP apis in different languages.

The question is can Google stop supporting gRPC, protobuf or stubby tomorrow, and I still think gRPC is relatively at risk

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> so do the libraries google publishes for using GCP apis in different languages

Not true. Many Google Cloud client libraries do support gRPC.

> still think gRPC is relatively at risk

I would agree with you that relative to protobuf and stubby, gRPC is less critical to Google infra. Yet, in absolute terms I would put the probability of that happening for any of those in the next couple decades at zero.

you are right, I checked now and these are based on gRPC

for some reason I remembered these used REST

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