Never understand the hype for protocol buffers, it may works well for languages like java and kotlin, but is a mess on many other languages. And then there are

Never understand the hype for protocol buffers, it may works well for languages like java and kotlin, but is a mess on many other languages. And then there are faster and better replacements. And all the time I use JSON, there don't exists multiple versions and any JSON file that is somewhere can get read by almost every language. (And I can read the file even with every editor)