Kind of, there isn't a 1:1 mapping of protobuf wire types to schema types, so you need to package the protobuf schema with the data and compile it to parse the

Kind of, there isn't a 1:1 mapping of protobuf wire types to schema types, so you need to package the protobuf schema with the data and compile it to parse the data, or decide on the schema before-hand. So now you need to decide on a file format to bundle the schema and the data.