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Comment by philwelch

8 months ago

If performance isn’t an issue, why not JSON?

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9rx  8 months ago

Protobuf tooling isn't great, but JSON tooling is far worse. Developer experience matters too.

(Technically protobuf supports JSON encoding, but its additional work to enable, again diminishing the developer experience)

foobiekr  8 months ago

performance is always an issue when the alternative is 2+ orders of magnitude slower.

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