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brew install protobuf v35.1 BSD-3-Clause

Compiler and runtime library for Protocol Buffers, Google's language-neutral serialization format.

Why you might care

Use protobuf when you need efficient, versioned binary serialization across languages and platforms—it generates type-safe code in C++, Python, Go, Java, etc. from .proto schema files. Faster and more compact than JSON/XML for RPC systems, databases, and inter-service communication.

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