For me, the breaking point was when I saw the C++ bindings unironically recommend [1] that you use terrible anti-patterns such as "delete this". I find it unlik

For me, the breaking point was when I saw the C++ bindings unironically recommend [1] that you use terrible anti-patterns such as "delete this". I find it unlikely that all these incredibly well paid Google engineers are unaware how people avoid these anti-patterns in idiomatic C++ (by e.g. std::shared_ptr). The only remaining sensible explanation is that Google internal gRPC C++ tooling must have utilities that abstract away this ugly underbelly, which us mere mortals are not privy to. [1] https://grpc.io/docs/languages/cpp/callback/ https://grpc.io/docs/languages/cpp/callback/