Co-author of proto3 here. Proto3 was specifically designed to make proto more friendly in variety of environments, which includes native JSON support. New Googl

Co-author of proto3 here. Proto3 was specifically designed to make proto more friendly in variety of environments, which includes native JSON support. New Google REST APIs are defined in proto3, which are open sourced[1]. [1] https://github.com/google/googleapis https://github.com/google/googleapis