[twinkletwinkle]

That's the core of the author's argument. Protobuffers optimize for something besides usability and maintainability, because Google cares more about incremental performance than developer-friendliness. Which is a fine thing to care about at Google's scale, but maybe others' calculations should be different.

[oh_sigh]

That doesn't seem like the author's main argument - they say: "Protobuffers were obviously built by amateurs because they offer bad solutions to widely-known and already-solved problems."

[UncleMeat]

That's a fine argument. But then the author decides to call the people who wrote protobuf idiots and amateurs.

[sethammons]

note that you could succinctly put in one sentence something that the author took a whole page. I feel there is something jib about compression to be said, but I'll leave that as an exercise to the reader.