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Google Open-sources its Internal Data Exchange Language

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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RE: cool

by tomcat on Thu 10th Jul 2008 01:13 UTC in reply to "cool"

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2006-01-06

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?

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RE[2]: cool

by DirtyHarry on Thu 10th Jul 2008 05:57 in reply to "RE: cool"

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2006-01-31

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

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