Protobuf doesn't include any kind of indexing. You can't just jump to a 5,000th record without traversing through the previous 4,999 ones. So no, you can't gene

Protobuf doesn't include any kind of indexing. You can't just jump to a 5,000th record without traversing through the previous 4,999 ones. So no, you can't generally skip to some specific part. You've got to stream from the beginning, just like JSON. And my proposal is literally the opposite of complicated and fragile. It's just taking two extremely robust and relatively simple existing standards. It's definitely not perfect, but the entire point is its simplicity and robustness and support, unlike protobuf. And the fact that a library could actually make it much more performant to use, without sacrificing any compatibility with zip or JSON.