Cargo-cult mentality. If protobuf hasn’t been created by Google, nobody would use it. It’s actually not well designed for small requests, and doesn’t even dea

Cargo-cult mentality. If protobuf hasn’t been created by Google, nobody would use it. It’s actually not well designed for small requests, and doesn’t even deal with versioning all that well. It’s more verbose than a C struct yet not self-describing either. To me, it fails to excel at any one thing yet people blindly use it anyway. If one really considers the details, Protobuf makes ASN.1 actually start to look good!