I tried to get into gRPC/protobuf in Go on a Mac for a little hobby project, but man the effort just to get protoc up and running and then generate the stubs wa

I tried to get into gRPC/protobuf in Go on a Mac for a little hobby project, but man the effort just to get protoc up and running and then generate the stubs was insane. I'm sure somehow or another, it's user error, but when the barrier of entry is so high, it's hard to justify the effort when JSON-slinging is so rarely the bottleneck.