Google Open-sources Data Exchange Language

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Jul 8, 2008 3:49 PM EDT
PC World; By Chris Kanaracus
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Google has open-sourced its protocol buffers, the company's lingua franca for encoding various types of data, in order to set the stage for a wave of new releases, according to official company blog posts and documents. "Practically everyone inside Google" uses protocol buffers, states a FAQ page. "We have many other projects we would like to release as open source that use protocol buffers, so to do this, we needed to release protocol buffers first."

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