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What are your thoughts on http://kentonv.github.io/capnproto/ http://kentonv.github.io/capnproto/ ?

• Animats 12y ago
  That the sender can probably crash the receiver with a malformed offset in a message. I'd like to see marshalling as a language feature. It's compilable, done often, and has an effect on performance. Many marshalling systems, from OpenRPC to protocol buffers, use a precompiler. But that adds another level of language.
  • geofft 12y ago
    > That the sender can probably crash the receiver with a malformed offset in a message. Errr, that would be a major bug in capnproto. While it's definitely possible the software has bugs, it's certainly a design constraint that the sender absolutely cannot crash the receiver. http://kentonv.github.io/capnproto/faq.html#arent-messages-that-contain-pointers-a-huge-security-problem http://kentonv.github.io/capnproto/faq.html#arent-messages-t...