Too little, too late. Thrift, gRPC, YaRPC, etc. are all RPC frameworks with strong typing and binary transports. They are still immature, but as such framework

Too little, too late. Thrift, gRPC, YaRPC, etc. are all RPC frameworks with strong typing and binary transports. They are still immature, but as such frameworks mature and support more languages, they will eat the lunch of any project trying to build on REST.