Agree with other ppl here, an unnecessarily violent rant, and the point the author makes is kind of lost in the title "Protobuffers Are Wrong". What they really

Agree with other ppl here, an unnecessarily violent rant, and the point the author makes is kind of lost in the title "Protobuffers Are Wrong". What they really mean is "I think Protobuffers type system could be better". I recently saw a talk by Rich Hickey about Effective Programs [1]. The talk explains why Hickey favors dynamic types, with EDN [2] and transit [3] proposed as an alternative to more statically typed data exchange formats like protobufs and less structured ones like Json (the talk explains the reasons, nearing the end I think). 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2V1FtfBDsLU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2V1FtfBDsLU 2: https://github.com/edn-format/edn https://github.com/edn-format/edn 3: https://github.com/cognitect/transit-format https://github.com/cognitect/transit-format