[skylark]

Hmmm, I suppose I objectively agree with some of the points the author made, but as someone who works with protocol buffers daily, those issues never actually come to be problematic in practice. In fact, I have nothing but positive things to say about protocol buffers and find them pleasant to work with. Definitely a step up from sending raw JSON down the wire.

Granted, the application I'm working on is fairly boring/vanilla so maybe I don't feel the pain points that come from going off the beaten path.

[ionforce]

Maybe for the benefit of everyone could you elaborate more on your vanilla application. So we can understand the context of why your problem-free experience differs from the author's or others'.