At the end of the day, all software engineers are moving, transforming and persisting bits. Languages abstract bits to types. But, there is no universal langau

At the end of the day, all software engineers are moving, transforming and persisting bits. Languages abstract bits to types. But, there is no universal langauge for storage, retreival, front-end rendering and middle-layer logic, so engineers have to fall back to sort of thinking in bits again as they interact with various systems. Protos are Google's fairly successful attempt at raising the abstraction level to object / document so that programmers can store, retrieve, transform objects at all layers.