I agree with the author that protobuf is bad and I ran into many of the issues mentioned. It's pretty much mandatory to add version fields to do backwards compatibility properly.

Recently, however, I had the displeasure of working with FlatBuffers. It's worse.

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giveita 6 days ago | parent [-]

Out of interest why not make the version part of say the URL?

	▲	MountainTheme12 6 days ago \| parent [-]
		That one was used to implement save data in a game.