Comment by iainmerrick
3 years ago
It was originally designed as a C/C++ replacement, not necessarily for servers. If I remember right the first major application it was used for was log processing (displacing Google’s in-house language Sawzall) rather than servers.
Everything developed at Google is intended for transforming protobufs. And how are you going to get some protobufs in the first place? /s
Nex step build a language on top of protobuff