Re: Google protocol buffers
"Joe Shaw" <[email protected]>
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Hey, On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 2:39 PM, Brad Taylor <[email protected]> wrote: > Now I haven't done that much research into Google's protocol buffers, > but from first blush, this seems similar in spirit to Thrift[1], which > is a lightweight, cross-platform binary serialization method, and works > with C# (among many other languages). Maybe this warrants a look as > well? Yeah, good point, it's definitely worth taking a look at this as well. Unfortunately it also doesn't support C# out of the box, though. Thrift also seems like it may be more focused on defining service definitions -- you can define things like method calls with it -- which is a little more like D-Bus. Beagle at this point only really cares about serializing data, so some of the power of Thrift is diminished. Joe