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by steveklabnik 3841 days ago 

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Ah, I see. This isn't my area of specialty, but it _sounds_ like what Cap'n Proto does? Anyway, it doesn't sound impossible, though it might not be the most ergonomic. I'll check out that library, thanks.
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vvanders 3841 days ago
Learn something new every day!

Yeah, Cap'n Proto is very similar, FlatBuffers has the advantage in that it compiles against almost all versions of Visual Studio where Cap'n Proto unfortunately decided to use some C++14 features.

FWIW I think I've seen some ports of FlatBuffers into Rust since it's much easier to handle due to the offsets and translation on return value. The former(matching compiler layout) was the part that I was mentioning that seems like something a bit gnarlier than rust would like.

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steveklabnik 3841 days ago
Gotcha. Yeah, so the Rust Capn' Proto does compile-time codegen to write out all the structures, so the grossness is hidden away, or at least, you don't have to deal with writing it out. I believe it's basically the same as the C++ version.
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