Completely agree that the thrift stuff is a mess, which is why we only used the one interesting part, the IDL, for our system. These days, proto3 would be viabl

Completely agree that the thrift stuff is a mess, which is why we only used the one interesting part, the IDL, for our system. These days, proto3 would be viable, but wasn't feature rich enough at the time for our needs when we were evaluating options.