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Protocol Buffers
A language-neutral, platform-neutral, extensible way of serializing structured data for use in communications protocols, data storage, and more.
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Protobufs are wrong
: No compositionality, Questionable choices, The lie of backwards- and forwards-compatibility, Protobuffers contaminate codebases
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Last modified 17 February 2026