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How does this compare to Google's protocol buffers, or Facebook's Thrift serialization framework?

• jameskilton 17y ago
  All covered in this blog post: http://github.com/blog/531-introducing-bert-and-bert-rpc http://github.com/blog/531-introducing-bert-and-bert-rpc
  • antonovka 17y ago
    Which seems to come down to "we don't like explicit protocol definitions via IDLs, think they are somehow incompatible with dynamic typing ethos, and didn't understand that Protobuf/Thrift can very easily be leveraged to provide dynamic self-describing messages without having to define a whole new encoding/protocol specification". See also: - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=895607 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=895607 - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=895280 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=895280