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Thanks for the thoughtful reply. Glad you found something you like that's solving your problems! The docs you linked do look nice. Ironically, I noticed this quote there:

> "It's much easier to use the API with JSON + a web browser, but the protobuf option is still available..."

... which sort of underscores my perspective (which is admittedly strongly biased towards / empathetic with the API consumer side).

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Yep, but the awesomeness of ConnectRPC is that you can use the JSON api in the web browser, and indeed I do that in this project. We don't have to, and as a matter of fact it's a little less performant, but it's easier to debug and hack.

Cool beans. Thanks for the response -- TIL!

[meta: IMHO this is an exemplary HN interaction; instead of shouting past each other, we shared very different points of view, and one of us learned something potentially useful.]

Any idea how monstrous migrating from gRPC to ConnectRPC might be, on the backend?

I've never used gRPC before, but from what I can tell, ConnectRPC tries to be compatible with it.

https://connectrpc.com/docs/go/grpc-compatibility/

It might not be super simple. Good interaction, I agree :)

Connect libraries are 100% compatible with gRPC - in many cases, they implement the gRPC spec more faithfully than the core libraries themselves: https://buf.build/blog/grpc-conformance-deep-dive

TLDR: there should be no migration cost.

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