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Re:The S stands for Simple by blasdel on Tuesday December 15, 2009 @04:38PM (#997501)
Of course you can implement custom type-tagged blobs, but that's not using thrift or protobufs -- it's your own nebulous SOAP-style bullshit.
Re:The S stands for Simple by antonovka2 on Tuesday December 15, 2009 @09:17PM (#997952)
They're not "blobs" if they are also protobuf/thrift messages themselves.
Re:The S stands for Simple by blasdel on Wednesday December 16, 2009 @01:36AM (#998246)
That's certainly cleverer, but it's still a nested user-implemented unsound type-system.