Comment by nindalf
6 hours ago
You're saying we choose Protobufs [1] because Google maintains it but not FlatBuffers [2]?
[1] - https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf: Google's data interchange format
[2] - https://github.com/google/flatbuffers: Also maintained by Google
I get the OP is off base with his remark - but at the same time maintained by Google means shit in practice.
AFAIK they have a bunch of production infra on protobuff/gRPC - not so sure about flatbufferrs which came out of the game dev side - that's the difference maker to me - which project is actually rooted in.
> but at the same time maintained by Google means shit in practice.
If you worked on Go projects that import Google protobuf / grpc / Kubernetes client libraries you are often reminded of that fact.
Flatbuffers are fine - I think it is used in many places that needs zero-copy. Also outside google, it powers the Arrow format which is the foundation of modern analytics