protocolbuffers / protobuf
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Google's language-neutral, platform-neutral binary and text format for serializing structured data, with a compiler and runtimes for many languages.
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Defines data schemas in .proto files and generates typed serialization code, giving compact, versioned wire messages shared across languages. It is the standard interchange format underlying many gRPC services and internal Google systems.
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Created2014-08-26 (12y ago)
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- GitHub: github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf
- Homepage: http://protobuf.dev
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