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mateuszf on Oct 14, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Transit: JSON Data Interchange Format

One reason is compatibility - it can be encoded to json and thus is handled by http proxies, etc. It is also human readable in encoded form.

icebraining on Oct 14, 2015 [–]

Protobuf is just a serialization format; you can send it over HTTP.

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