Cap'n Proto
Also known as Cap’n Proto, capnp
Data serialization format and capability-based RPC system, a successor to Protocol Buffers.
- Cap'n Proto is a data interchange format and capability-based RPC system.
- Its encoding is also its in-memory form, so there is no encode or decode step.
- It was built for Sandstorm and is now heavily used in Cloudflare Workers.
Why it matters
- For programs that exchange structured data over a network or between processes and care about speed and security.
- Announced
- 1 April 20132
- Created by
- Kenton Varda, former maintainer of Protocol Buffers3
- Used in
- Sandstorm and Cloudflare Workers1
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