protocolbuffers/protobuf
Protocol Buffers - Google's data interchange format
About the project
Protocol Buffers is Google's language-neutral, platform-neutral mechanism for serializing structured data, with the protoc compiler and runtimes for C++, Java, Python, Go and other languages. It is used for data interchange between services and storing structured records.
Useful for
- Compile a .proto schema into code for a target language with protoc
- Exchange messages between microservices over gRPC
- Serialize structured data into a compact binary format
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Why it’s trending
- 2 stars so far today, about 3 expected by the end of the day.
- GitHub Trending C++ today: #13, +10 stars.
- Recent forks include notable developers: @Surfndez (376 followers).
Stars per day
Bars are daily stars, the line is the usual pace. Red marks spike days.
Numbers
- Total stars
- 72,040
- Stars in a day
- 3
- Forks
- 16,290
- Issues and pull requests
- 29,572
- Watchers
- 2,013
- Language
- C++
- Latest release
- v36.2 · September 17, 2026
- Created
- August 26, 2014
- Last push
- September 18, 2026
Star trust
Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.
These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.
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- September 18, 2026GitHub Trending C++ today: #13, +10 stars
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