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by hot_gril 763 days ago
I've always liked the simplicity of protobuf, and this change seems to add unnecessary complexity. And: "What problems are Editions solving? In short, nothing really (for end users). The introduction of Editions is the result of major Google-internal refactoring[...]"
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Thinking about this more, this looks overly dismissive. Seems Google wants to be very explicit about future syntax and allow users to mix in different features. I don't think it's worthwhile, but it's doing something.

Is the author just annoyed that Buf now has to put in the work to support editions?

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