i used protobuffers a lot at $previous_job and i agree with the entire article. i feel the author’s pain in my bones. protobuffers are so awful i can’t imagine google associating itself with such an amateur, ad hoc, ill-defined, user hostile, time wasting piece of shit.

the fact that protobuffers wasn’t immediately relegated to the dustbin shows just how low the bar is for serialization formats.

What do you use?