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by cryptonector 1618 days ago
> Meanwhile, ProtoBufs and Thrift work off of more constrained and well-versioned interfaces.

Not so. Protocol buffers is just a TLV encoding, which is bad (see elsewhere in this thread) -- it's just a cut-down ASN.1 and variation on BER, so what.

ASN.1 can "well-version" everything just as well as anything else.
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bri3d 1618 days ago
If I have two "proto3" implementations using the same definitions, I trust they work together, generally speaking.

If I have two ASN.1 BER implementations, I sadly can't really trust they work together, because I don't know what parts of "ASN.1" each one implemented.

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