[rozenmd]

"5 times faster" reminds me of Cap'n Proto's claim: in benchmarks, Cap’n Proto is INFINITY TIMES faster than Protocol Buffers: https://capnproto.org/

[gf000]

I mean, cap'n'proto is written by the same person who created protobuf, so they are legit (and that somewhat jokish claim is simply that it requires no parsing).

[Sesse__]

> I mean, cap'n'proto is written by the same person who created protobuf

Notably, Protobuf 2, a rewrite of Protobuf 1. Protobuf 1 was created by Sanjay Ghemawat, I believe.

[7777332215]

In my experience capn proto is much less ergonomic.

[IshKebab]

I agree. It might be faster if you don't actually deserialise the data into native structs but then your codebase will be filled with fairly horrific CapnProto C++ code.