OSNews: http://www.osnews.com/story/20012/Google_Open-sources_its_Internal_Data_Exchange_Language Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Tue, 10 Nov 2009 05:00:40 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif OSNews.com http://www.osnews.com Comment by Kroc http://osnews.com/thread?322175 http://osnews.com/thread?322175 This is good stuff. Proper beard-powered engineering.
I looked through the spec and this is built for speed, compactness, portability and compatibility.

I wonder if a compiler/interpreter can be ported to the web (PHP/JS/Ruby &c.), it would be very interesting to process back-end data-streams on the front-end this way.

I might try a PHP port myself, PHP does have the necessary binary operators. Wed, 09 Jul 2008 17:49:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Kroc) Comments cool http://osnews.com/thread?322178 http://osnews.com/thread?322178 We're already downloaded it to have a look at it. Although it's basically 'nothing new', what I really like is the simplicity of the IDL language, the .proto files.

I wonder if there's a dissector for Wireshark already? Wed, 09 Jul 2008 17:57:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (DirtyHarry) Comments Good but http://osnews.com/thread?322199 http://osnews.com/thread?322199 i see this as a nice and robust wire protocol. But i wish the steps to produce the classes or instantiate objects for java could be fewer. it gives a feeling this was prepared for C++ initially. i will give a try anyway.

There is another protocol and RPC mechanism called Hessian, which is also a binary transfer protocol, and it does not require any external configuration or code generation. It also allows method invocation. However, Hessian suffers from bugs and lack of documentation. if anyone is interested in hessian, can check it here:
http://hessian.caucho.com/ Wed, 09 Jul 2008 20:14:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (ahmetaa) Comments Comment by stestagg http://osnews.com/thread?322209 http://osnews.com/thread?322209 Please fix the link. I click on something that says 'Official company blog' and I get taken to PC World. Wed, 09 Jul 2008 21:12:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (stestagg) Comments RE: cool http://osnews.com/thread?322241 http://osnews.com/thread?322241
We're already downloaded it to have a look at it. Although it's basically 'nothing new', what I really like is the simplicity of the IDL language, etc


You are aware that IDL is, like, 20 years old, right?Edited 2008-07-10 01:31 UTC Thu, 10 Jul 2008 01:13:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (tomcat) Comments RE: Comment by stestagg http://osnews.com/thread?322265 http://osnews.com/thread?322265 Yeah, I didnt know PCWorld was the company blog for Google... Thu, 10 Jul 2008 05:02:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Soulbender) Comments RE[2]: cool http://osnews.com/thread?322267 http://osnews.com/thread?322267 As I said, 'nothing new'. So yes I'm aware of that. The problem with many IDL's is the complexity. And if you have a company with a bunch of C/C++ developers (like we do) then the Protocol Buffers IDL is attractive and certainly not intimidating.

Regards Hary Thu, 10 Jul 2008 05:57:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (DirtyHarry) Comments What's next? http://osnews.com/thread?322427 http://osnews.com/thread?322427 > 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? Fri, 11 Jul 2008 03:10:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Howie S) Comments