I’d be interested in OP’s answer here as well.

I know dapr injects a sidecar so you can code in any language and then use their SDK to call other microservices. Encore looks to be Go centric and uses code generation to create actual Go functions, which provides much better IDE support.

I did not see this in the docs but I’m not sure if Encore supports retries with or without exponential backoffs; dapr supports both.