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From protobuf to quantum computing, Google just keeps solving problems nobody has...
by unprovable 1mo ago
From protobuf to quantum computing, Google just keeps solving problems nobody has...
- r_lee 1mo agoso you're saying protobuf has no purpose?
- booi 1mo agoi mean...
- ventana 1mo agoThat's not Google. Buf.build is, hilariously enough, a completely separate company that tries to make sense of Google's protobuf, and it's doing a decent job from what I can see.
- teaearlgraycold 1mo agoProtobuf should at least get credit for enforcing fields be optional.
- debugnik 1mo agoThey reluctantly acknowledged that as a mistake by adding an actual "optional" modifier for field presence. proto3's previously so-called optional were really all present with a zero default value; proto2 could have supported that for required fields at the code level if they had wanted. In the end, all they've changed is how they frame the feature.