I think I asked the question before: as a long-term GWT-RPC user, what 
would be the benefit of moving to some other RPC protocol/mechanism?


Depends on your situation of course. If you want to use your existing 
backend with other clients written in other languages then GWT-RPC is a bad 
fit. While the wire format of GWT-RPC is documented, you still need to 
write the client code to generate it. Also GWT-RPC supports inheritance 
which other languages you want to use might not support. Other JS based RPC 
solutions as well as general purpose solutions like gRPC typically do not 
support inheritance.

GWT-RPC will already be annoying if you decide to have some portions of 
your app being written in a different framework since it is easier to find 
developers for that framework, e.g. angular, svelte, react, whatever. You 
would then need to define a JS api that calls into GWT code so these 
frameworks can talk to your GWT-RPC backend (or you need to provide new 
endpoints in your backend that do not talk GWT-RPC).

-- J.

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