I had the displeasure of working with gRPC and Python as an intern. I ended up writing a makefile that would generate the files and then immediately run sed on them to fix their imports. It felt like a terrible hack and I hated having to do it.
What’s worse is my overall task was to come up with ways of doing this type of thing reproducibly in a bunch of different languages that had poor gRPC support so that the team could distribute consistent (and verifiably working) API bindings to other teams. At that point it felt like we probably should have conceded that gRPC sucks and not used it at all. I’m 99% sure it was just resume driven development by the lead dev.
What’s worse is my overall task was to come up with ways of doing this type of thing reproducibly in a bunch of different languages that had poor gRPC support so that the team could distribute consistent (and verifiably working) API bindings to other teams. At that point it felt like we probably should have conceded that gRPC sucks and not used it at all. I’m 99% sure it was just resume driven development by the lead dev.