It's fine at medium and large scale, too, as long as the service doesn't change its API very much, and/or it doesn't have too many consumers. It only breaks dow

It's fine at medium and large scale, too, as long as the service doesn't change its API very much, and/or it doesn't have too many consumers. It only breaks down when managing change becomes too difficult. IMO way way too many people opt in to the complexity of IDL-based protocols without good reason.