[iamcalledrob]

My personal gripes are around the generated code not being idiomatic Go. It feels like code written by someone who doesn't really enjoy Go.

In particular, oneofs are *so* awful to work with that I'm often tempted to use an Any instead. For example:

    message Image {
      oneof kind {
        Bitmap bitmap = 1;
        Vector vector = 2;
      }
    }

Should, in my opinion, lead to code like this:

    img := &Image{Kind: &Bitmap{}}

But the reality looks more like this:

    img := &Image{Kind: &Image_Bitmap{Bitmap: &Bitmap{}}}

My other main gripe is that the generated structs embed a mutex, and so can't be copied, compared [ergonomically], or passed by value.

Sadly, both of these issues are explained away as on the issue tracker.

(My use-case is primarily to share data structures across languages, so perhaps it's not totally aligned with what protobufs is trying to do. I just wish there was a better alternative.)