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I'd like to use this, but I don't want to refactor all my services when they change the request/response types. Interested to know the timing of 1.x. It seems to be moving pretty fast atm - hopefully that momentum keeps going.

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As I understand, protobuf has compatibility (it stores field ids), so new service can read request from older client, and vice versa, so you do not need to refactor anything. Also, it is made for long-range communications, and is inefficient for inter-process or inter-thread messaging.

Presumably, OP refers to the generated rust types which depend on the specific protobuf framework.

I had the same issue when looking to adopt ConnectRPC for Go, which uses a custom wrapper type to model requests.

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