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From: Peter Zotov <whitequark@whitequark.org>
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Subject: Re: [Caml-list] [ANN] capnp-ocaml 1.0.0

On 2014-07-07 17:46, Paul Pelzl wrote:
> Q: Why would I want to use this over Protocol Buffers?
> 
> A: Cap'n Proto has the clear advantage of first-class sum types, which
> are mapped to OCaml variants in a straightforward fashion. You also
> find yourself intrigued by the potential for better performance and
> zero-overhead shared-memory message passing.

I want to note that ppx_protobuf provides an efficient mapping for
OCaml's sum types, which would map to most well-designed protocols
naturally.

   https://github.com/whitequark/ppx_protobuf#variants

-- 
Peter Zotov
sip:whitequark@sipnet.ru