JavaScript

[rthompson....@gmail.com]

Is there anything in the works that would allow us to output
JavaScript along with C++, Java, and Python?

[Marc Gravell]

I haven't tried it, but http://code.google.com/p/protobuf/wiki/OtherLanguages
lists javascript support here: http://code.google.com/p/protobuf-js/

(this is one of many unofficial independent implementations - not
google's; don't blame them ;-p)

Marc

[Alek Storm]

That one doesn't look complete.  I've got one that almost is.

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Alek Storm

[Kenton Varda]

One problem with javascript and protobuf is that you need a lot of support code to parse the messages.  Unless you end up sending quite a lot of stuff back and forth, making the user download a JS protobuf codec library may be a net loss.  It may be better to use JSON or XML because browsers already have built-in support for those.

That said, I think various people inside google have been playing with javascript + protocol buffers for awhile and if we end up with anything that works well enough, we'll release it.

[Leo Gallucci]

Almost 6 years later, what do you think about this now? What about using https://github.com/dcodeIO/ProtoBuf.js ? or is it still more convenient to simply stick to JSON/BSON/PSON?

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Leo

[Timo K]

I am just using  https://github.com/dcodeIO/ProtoBuf.js right now. I use it for piping the internal protobuffer communication over websockets and it just works like a charm.