[jackmott]

Cap'n'proto is more or less abandoned I believe. But it and the flatbuffer approach gives very fast serialization and deserialization speed (essentially takes 0 times) but you pay a cost when you later access data, because it extracts the values you need on demand from the raw bytes.

I'm not sure it would often make much sense overall.

[dwrensha]

> Cap'n proto is more or less abandoned I believe

As maintainer of capnproto-rust, I beg to differ. :)

Cap'n Proto is indeed actively maintained, and here at Sandstorm we depend on it every day as a core piece of our infrastructure.

[ocdtrekkie]

I would be very hesitant to call Cap'n Proto "abandoned". The Cap'n Proto developer is actively building a platform on top of it, and implements features in it as necessary, and as far as I've seen, actively works with pull requests for other features as well.

https://github.com/sandstorm-io/capnproto/commits/master https://github.com/sandstorm-io/capnproto/pulse/monthly

[cbsmith]

What makes you think it is more or less abandoned?