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Protocol Buffers Overview
- Protocol Buffers offer a language for defining data schemas and a binary format for serialization.
- This helps avoid redundant work across different platforms like Go, TypeScript, and Python.
Protocol Buffer Use Cases
- Protocol Buffers are beneficial for any developer trying to reduce repetitive work and errors.
- They're especially useful when building APIs with clients in multiple languages.
Trade-offs of Protocol Buffers
- In Go, using Protocol Buffers doesn't introduce many trade-offs since structs are commonly handwritten.
- Other languages might lose some flexibility with loosely typed APIs, but gain benefits.