===== Google: Protocol Buffers =====
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**Source: [[https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/ | The following is from Google ''Protocol Buffers '' site ]]**

  : //Protocol buffers are Google's language-neutral, platform-neutral, extensible mechanism for serializing structured data – think XML, but smaller, faster, and simpler. You define how you want your data to be structured once, then you can use special generated [[dido:public:ra:xapend:xapend.a_glossary:s:sourcecode|source code]] to easily write and read your structured data to and from a variety of data streams and using a variety of languages.//

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<caption>Data Sheet for Protocol Buffers
</caption>
^   Characteristic      ^   Value                                     ^
| Developer             | Google                                      |
| Initial release	| 10 November 2009((
"Frequently Asked Questions | Protocol Buffers". Google Developers. Retrieved 2 October 2016.
))                            |
| Stable release	| 3.7.1 / March 26, 2019((
"Releases - google/protobuf". Retrieved 2 April 2019 – via GitHub.
))                     |
| Repository	        | [[https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf]]  |
| Written in	        | Go, assembly language (gc); C++ (gccgo)     |
| Operating system	| Any                                        |
| Available in	        | English                                     |
| Type	                | Version control                             |
| License	        | BSD                                         |
| Website	        | [[https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/]] |
</table>

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