Protobufin
Protobufin is a fictional data-serialization framework designed to resemble Protocol Buffers. It presents an approach to encoding structured data in a compact binary form using schemas to control layout and compatibility. It is not an officially released project and is commonly used in educational or hypothetical discussions to illustrate concepts of schema-based serialization.
Protobufin uses an interface definition language called PIDL that defines messages and fields with numeric tags.
A key part of the Protobufin concept is its tooling and runtime. A PIDL compiler generates language-specific
Use cases for Protobufin in theory include microservices communication, data streaming, and inter-process messaging where compact
See also Protocol Buffers, Cap'n Proto, FlatBuffers, Data serialization.