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by ejona86 4128 days ago
Immutability is still there. You get to choose whether you want it or not.

For when you actually want a nullable field, I think the idea is that it is easy to have a wrapper message (just like boxing in languages). Such wrappers could even be made standard and provided by protobuf.

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> Such wrappers could even be made standard and provided by protobuf.

They will be: https://github.com/google/protobuf/issues/159#issuecomment-7...