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So, this is something I've been thinking about recently: do you gain much by using Protocol Buffers (et al) for a client-side web application's communication with a server? Having JSON/XMLHttpRequest in the browser by default is such a boon that it'd have to be a lot better as a serialisation format for it to be worth it, but that might actually be the case?

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