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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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