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Re:Arguing against using protobuffers by weberc2 on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @05:59PM (#18189292)
Capnproto is built by the guy who originally built protobufs, and he cites capnproto as being better because he was able to learn from his mistakes. Makes me optimistic.
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Re:Arguing against using protobuffers by enneff on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @06:23PM (#18189478)
Minor clarification: the author of Capnproto worked on protobufs at Google but was not their original creator.
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Re:Arguing against using protobuffers by nostrademons on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @06:33PM (#18189534)
Minor clarification of the clarification: the author of Cap'n'proto was the original creator of Proto2, which was a ground-up (but binary compatible) rewrite of Proto1. The original authors of Proto1 were Jeff Dean & Sanjay Ghemawat. The current version of protobufs is Proto3, which AIUI is maintained by a team at Google (it was released after I left), and is an evolution of the Proto2 codebase with many new features.
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Re:Arguing against using protobuffers by weberc2 on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @10:53PM (#18190689)
Ah, my mistake. Thanks guys. :+1:
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