Linked by David Adams on Wed 9th Jul 2008 17:24 UTC, submitted by stonyandcher
Google has open-sourced its protocol buffers, the company's lingua franca for encoding various types of data, in order to set the stage for a wave of new releases,
according to official company blog posts and documents reported in this article.
"Practically everyone inside Google" uses protocol buffers, states a FAQ page. "We have
many other projects we would like to release as open source that use protocol buffers,
so to do this, we needed to release protocol buffers first."
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> Google has prepared a download page that contains protocol buffer compilers for Java, C++ and Python.
So, Guido (van Rossum) has had a hand in this, somehow?
If this release is supposed to be a prelude to other future releases, anyone's guess as to what those other releases will be?