He most likely wants to have the type structure generated by protocol buffer as opposed to parsing JSON
The latter requires asserting in a million places that this key exists in this map with this type, which will require a million lines of crap code.
Not to mention packing and unpacking the serialized data and maintaining two separate sets of corresponding structures/records that have to be kept in sync.
https://protobuf.dev/reference/protobuf/textformat-spec/
He most likely wants to have the type structure generated by protocol buffer as opposed to parsing JSON
The latter requires asserting in a million places that this key exists in this map with this type, which will require a million lines of crap code.
Not to mention packing and unpacking the serialized data and maintaining two separate sets of corresponding structures/records that have to be kept in sync.