> When one starts gluing together a lot of data pipelines full of JSON trash and from all kinds of systems with incompatible data types (whether or not “lol what’s an integer?” JSON is involved), one quickly comes to appreciate why things like Protobuf exist and look the way they do.

And then one proceeds to spend days trying to mash that JSON mess into a protobuff and debugging segfaults, rather than just getting the job done with HTTP.