Could you explain more. I'm using protobuf (without grpc) in a project right now. Yes, getting your toolchain set up to compile and update everything when you m

Could you explain more. I'm using protobuf (without grpc) in a project right now. Yes, getting your toolchain set up to compile and update everything when you make edits to your .proto files takes a little bit of work and you need to do some planning ahead when it comes to your data model since you're not quite as flexible as JSON, but on the whole it has been not much trouble at all. And on the performance side, parsing our data takes ~1 second in JSON vs ~0.03 seconds with protobuf (in python).