We were using protobufs at Spotify and ditched them for simple JSON calls on the client side. No one complained, and never going back to having anything like that on the client side if I can.
Just too many drawbacks.
For server to server, they might be fine, but to client just stick with JSON. (which when compressed is pretty efficient).
Just too many drawbacks.
For server to server, they might be fine, but to client just stick with JSON. (which when compressed is pretty efficient).