...You define how you want your data to be structured once, then you can use special generated source code to easily write and read your structured data to and from a variety of data streams and using a variety of languages. Protocol buffers currently support generated code in Java, Python, Objective-C, and C++. With our new proto3 language version, you can also work with Dart, Go, Ruby, and C#, with more languages to come. Package proto provides functions operating on protobuf messages such as cloning, merging, and checking equality, as well as binary serialization and text serialization. ...