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I never understood the point of layering an RPC protocol on top of HTTP; HTTP is already itself a request/response protocol and can be used for RPC out of the box.

Whether it's HTTP 1, 2 or 3, it doesn't really make a difference. The evolutions of that protocol are themselves somewhat dubious, and designed to exploit things you wouldn't need in an RPC setting -- they're really designed for the open Internet, not a local service.



Because http is the new tcp. Nowadays protocols are primarily developed by companies making most of their bucks with http so…


Thankfully non-web software companies still exist.




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