What’s the difference between Protocol Buffers and Flatbuffers?
I wrote a detailed comparison of a few serialization systems, including Protobufs and FlatBuffers, here: https://kentonv.github.io/capnproto/news/2014-06-17-capnproto-flatbuffers-sbe.html However, the comparison focuses more on comparing the three new “zero-copy” serialization systems, and includes Protobufs mostly as a reference point. Also, I’m the author of Cap’n Proto, and also the author of Protobufs v2 (I was responsible for … Read more