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		blasdel on Dec 15, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The S stands for Simple Of course you can implement custom type-tagged blobs, but that's not using thrift or protobufs -- it's your own nebulous SOAP-style bullshit.

antonovka2 on Dec 16, 2009 [–]

They're not "blobs" if they are also protobuf/thrift messages themselves.

blasdel on Dec 16, 2009 | [–]

That's certainly cleverer, but it's still a nested user-implemented unsound type-system.

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