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Re:Types as Interfaces by smackmybishop on Tuesday July 23, 2024 @06:32PM (#41051684)
Everything has been `optional` for about a decade.

> The option to set a field to required is absent in proto3 and strongly discouraged in proto2.

https://protobuf.dev/overview/#syntax

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Re:Types as Interfaces by taeric on Tuesday July 23, 2024 @07:06PM (#41051954)
Ah, I dropped off protobuf a while back. I definitely remember a lot of uproar about it, at the time.
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