While that's true I think protobufs are (correctly) seen as the standard preferred way to use gRPC. The first point from the main page: > Simple service defini

While that's true I think protobufs are (correctly) seen as the standard preferred way to use gRPC. The first point from the main page: > Simple service definition > Define your service using Protocol Buffers, a powerful binary serialization toolset and language It's a little unfair to call it that orthogonal.