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jeffrallen on Dec 17, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: Go Protobuf: The New Opaque API

> Nobody wants to pay for forty years of continuous incremental improvement, maintenance, and modernization.

And yet somehow, we are willing to pay to reinvent the thing 25 times in 40 years.

dpeckett on Dec 17, 2024 | [–]

It's a different company paying each time ;)

I'm actually super excited to see how https://www.sovereign.tech turns out long-term. Germany has a lot of issues with missing the boat on tech, but the sovereign tech fund is such a fantastic idea.

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