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		philwelch 74 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Parsing Protobuf like never before If performance isn’t an issue, why not JSON?

9rx 73 days ago | [–]

Protobuf tooling isn't great, but JSON tooling is far worse. Developer experience matters too.

(Technically protobuf supports JSON encoding, but its additional work to enable, again diminishing the developer experience)

foobiekr 74 days ago | [–]

performance is always an issue when the alternative is 2+ orders of magnitude slower.

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