> Why on earth would you try to re-use a network-layer interface in levels several layers higher? That's crazy talk! It's theoretically ugly but in practice it

> Why on earth would you try to re-use a network-layer interface in levels several layers higher? That's crazy talk! It's theoretically ugly but in practice it can be really convenient. Translating large structures between different formats is tedious and error-prone... sometimes it's just a lot faster and easier to leave it as a Protobuf.