alt Hacker NewsFlatBuffers are already faster than that. But that's not why we choose Protobuf. It's because a megacorp maintains it.
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secondcoming • today at 11:02 AM
Yet they've yet to release their internal optimisation that allows zero-copying string-type fields.
You're saying we choose Protobufs [1] because Google maintains it but not FlatBuffers [2]?
[1] - https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf: Google's data interchange format
[2] - https://github.com/google/flatbuffers: Also maintained by Google