[vvanders]

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.

[steveklabnik]

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.