Re: Encoding projects to kick off this year
Lassi Kortela 08 Jul 2020 15:11 UTC
> I very much want us *not* to fall into the RPC trap yet again. Severely
> limiting the number of message types a la HTTP or 9P makes a huge
> difference in interop.
What is the RPC trap?
> As for complexity vs. arbitrary limits, for integers as for anything
> else it is a tradeoff. The simplest approach is always to set an
> arbitrary limit.
Varints :-p It may make sense to use something else for things like
Protocol Buffers where performance is a more important design criterion
than extensibility.
