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Except in this case you have flatbuffers which is a perfectly reasonable replacement and works across a wide array of platforms.

We rejected Cap'n Proto for the same reasons. I don't see a need to use bleeding edge C++ features when the same(or better) results can be achieved with code generation.

Kudos on the effort but if you're looking for wide adoption you've missed the mark.



> if you're looking for wide adoption

Well... We're not, actually. We're looking to support the needs of Sandstorm.

It's nice if my code is useful to others, and if people want to contribute better Windows support I'll be totally happy to review and merge those changes! But wide adoption of Cap'n Proto (outside of the Sandstorm context) is not part of our business model, unfortunately.

(Note: The poster you were replying to isn't associated with Cap'n Proto nor Sandstorm.)


I heard the exact same thing said about templates 15 years ago.




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