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That's the core of the author's argument. Protobuffers optimize for something besides usability and maintainability, because Google cares more about incremental
by twinkletwinkle 8y ago
That's the core of the author's argument. Protobuffers optimize for something besides usability and maintainability, because Google cares more about incremental performance than developer-friendliness. Which is a fine thing to care about at Google's scale, but maybe others' calculations should be different.
- sethammons 8y agonote that you could succinctly put in one sentence something that the author took a whole page. I feel there is something jib about compression to be said, but I'll leave that as an exercise to the reader.
- oh_sigh 8y agoThat doesn't seem like the author's main argument - they say: "Protobuffers were obviously built by amateurs because they offer bad solutions to widely-known and already-solved problems."
- UncleMeat 8y agoThat's a fine argument. But then the author decides to call the people who wrote protobuf idiots and amateurs.