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FWIW, I had never heard of this before today, and I make a point of keeping tabs on these kinds of things.

> Cap'n Proto's solution to this was just to build unions into the language, something Protobufs should have done a long time ago.

This has been implemented internally; the next open-source release should have it.



> This has been implemented internally; the next open-source release should have it.

Oh cool! Presumably based on the patch I wrote before I left? :)


Seems likely, though I couldn't say for sure. I am sure you will recognize a lot of the design. :)


Did you have a say on the choice of language? I ask because I remember those posts http://blog.reverberate.org/2009/12/torn-over-c-question.htm...


I don't understand your question -- the choice of language for what?

The blog article you linked is about my own protobuf implementation "upb", which is separate from anything else we've been talking about in this thread.


For this new project, FlatBuffers, since it appears you were involved in it.


I'm not involved in FlatBuffers -- I said I hadn't heard of it before yesterday. :)

My comment about unions was about the Google protobuf implementation, which I am tangentially involved in.


Please apologize my misunderstandment.


No problem, I am flattered that you would have remembered a blog article I posted five years ago.




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