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Subject: Re: protobuff for Ada
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> * Its backed by a large corporation.

true

> * The technology is well known.

true

> * 99.9% of the programming population think that they are the salvation 
> to serialization.

true, until they switch to Cap'N Proto ... or any other one. We may be good for 10 years though.

> And on top.
> * The are significantly more then one project where the lack of protobuf 
> support has ruled out Ada as implementation technology.

very true (grpc which would give a low hanging DGraph(https://dgraph.io/) Ada client)

> /And my intent was to eliminate at least the last points even if the 
> technology is inferior.

+1