On 3/3/09 3:07 PM, Alex Payne wrote:
We're fully aware of what Protocol Buffers are their intended use. We
use Thrift, Facebook's clone of Protocol Buffers. You might note the
use of the world "internal" in the material you quoted.
Quoting from http://code.google.com/apis/protocolbuffers/docs/faq.html:
"We would like to provide public APIs that accept protocol buffers
as well as XML, both because it is more efficient and because we're just
going to convert that XML to protocol buffers on our end anyway."
Their use of the word "internal" simply clarifies where they _currently_
use it, not its limitation.
Could Twitter be the first service to offer protocol buffers? Sure. I
guess you're saying it's not going to happen, though.
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