Two years ago, I wrote Making gRPC more approachable with ConnectRPC. At the time, ConnectRPC was the “new kid on the block”, a library promising to fix the “gRPC tax” by supporting HTTP/1.1 and JSON without an extra proxy. Today, ConnectRPC isn’t just a library. It is the core of a toolchain that makes traditional protoc workflows look completely dated. Companies like Anthropic are using it in pr

