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Re:Rust and RPC at OkCupid by otterley on Tuesday March 21, 2017 @09:58PM (#13927971)
Yay XDR! I still haven't heard a good explanation as to why Google invented Protocol Buffers when XDR already existed and was mature (it powers NFS).
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Re:Rust and RPC at OkCupid by Zikes on Tuesday March 21, 2017 @11:29PM (#13928274)
Literally guessing here, but does XDR support backwards compatibility with updated definitions? Protobufs let you add a property to a definition as long as it's at the end of the object definition, yet objects encoded in the old definition can still be decoded with it and vice versa.
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