I think it was Churchill said that "protobufs are the worst form of data serialization, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.

I think it was Churchill said that "protobufs are the worst form of data serialization, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time." I really don't understand why you would ever want to serialize data without a description of what can be in the serialized data blob. And yes, I do care about the difference between a single precision float, a double precision float, or an int64. Thank you, typing system.