Protocol Buffers

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Project Summary

Protocol Buffers are a way of encoding structured data in an efficient yet extensible format. Google uses Protocol Buffers for almost all of its internal RPC protocols and file formats.

In a Nutshell, Protocol Buffers...

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has had 20,976 commits made by 1,323 contributors
representing 793,629 lines of code
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is mostly written in C++
with a low number of source code comments
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has a well established, mature codebase
maintained by a very large development team
with stable Y-O-Y commits
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took an estimated 221 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in July, 2008
ending with its most recent commit 1 day ago

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