Hello. I didn't invent Protocol Buffers, but I did write version 2 and was responsible for open sourcing it. I believe I am the author of the "manifesto" entitled "required considered harmful" mentioned in the footnote. Note that I mostly haven't touched Protobufs since I left Google in early 2013, but I have created Cap'n Proto since then, which I imagine this guy would criticize in similar ways.This article appears to be written by a programming language design theorist who, unfortunately, ...
