I wrote Perl cgi scripts for a self-serve customer admin interface for an ISP in the early 2000s. As users grew, we started hitting the limits of what 1-2G ram could do. Thank goodness for mod_perl and HTML::Mason, which could REALLY speed up performance. I remain a huge fan of Perl these days.
I like rpc because of its simplicity. Function call done over the wire. I want to just invoke a function somewhere without worrying about constraints of “style” (rest, graph quality, etc). Whether it’s json, xml, grpc etc underneath doesn’t really matter to me.
Good symbolic act, but as the fine article states, it’s unlikely to have material effect on housing affordability for the average person until supply is increased.
Then I’d happily pay more then 15% income tax in this country so we can provide better foreign aid to said countries so they can afford a better education. Encouraging slavery does not solve the root cause.