Yep, protocol buffers are like a cross-language type system for the data that mo...

gradys on Jan 4, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Software Engineering at Google (2017)

Yep, protocol buffers are like a cross-language type system for the data that moves between systems with the side benefit of compact serialization. They're awesome and definitely a big productivity boost above a certain scale.

lexpar on Jan 4, 2019 [–]

Something like this would have indeed saved us a lot of time in the long run. Oh well.