That's surprising, since Google uses protobufs very (very!) extensively internally, and it'd have to be a very exotic use case for protobufs not to be useful. W

That's surprising, since Google uses protobufs very (very!) extensively internally, and it'd have to be a very exotic use case for protobufs not to be useful. Which isn't to say they're the be-all-end-all, but I'd be curious to hear your use case.