Yes, gRPC's stream support is a big positive in its book, and combined with the newer iterations of Protobuf that support lists and maps, it gives Thrift a run

Yes, gRPC's stream support is a big positive in its book, and combined with the newer iterations of Protobuf that support lists and maps, it gives Thrift a run for its money. I was still initially attracted to Thrift because of its wide language support, until I gave these a test run and found that many of them are buggy.