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by cyberax 106 days ago
> So there is introspection in the 6 targeted languages, and I think I did it a bit better than protobuf because it generally has better type safety.

A bit different kind of introspection. In Protobuf I can write a code generator that loads the compiled PB descriptions and then generates whatever it needs.

For example, I'm using it to generate SQL-serializing wrappers for my Protobuf types for Go.

Oh yeah, also having a standardized pretty-printer would be great.