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		smackmybishop on July 23, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Types as Interfaces Everything has been `optional` for about a decade. > The option to set a field to required is absent in proto3 and strongly discouraged in proto2. https://protobuf.dev/overview/#syntax

taeric on July 23, 2024 [–]

Ah, I dropped off protobuf a while back. I definitely remember a lot of uproar about it, at the time.

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