I've always liked the look of this, saw it a while back but we are still using protobuf in our .NET environment simply due to the "free" schema generation using

I've always liked the look of this, saw it a while back but we are still using protobuf in our .NET environment simply due to the "free" schema generation using AOP/attributes [ProtoContract]/[ProtoMember] in Marc Gravell's excellent protobuf-net (https://github.com/mgravell/protobuf-net https://github.com/mgravell/protobuf-net) project - I assume this would also be possible for cap'n proto.