# protocolbuffers/protobuf

> 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.

- Magnitude: 1.5 out of 10 — Steady
- Stars: 72,150 total · +5 stars measured 2026-11-02, 00:14–23:11 UTC
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Backend & databases · Language: C++ · Created: 2014-08-26 · Last push: 2026-11-02
- GitHub: https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf · Homepage: http://protobuf.dev · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/protocolbuffers/protobuf

## 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

## Why it’s here

- Star-counter measurements on 2026-11-02 (UTC), 00:14–23:11: 72145 → 72150 stars (+5). This is the change over that interval.

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 16,359
- Issues and pull requests: 30,928
- Watchers: 2,000
- Average over the last week: 5 per day
- Usual pace: 4 per day
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 0
- Latest release: v37.0-rc1 (2026-10-15)

## Stars per day, last 30 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-10-04 … 2026-11-02: 5, 5, 3, 8, 6, 6, 5, 4, 10, 5, 4, 3, 3, 2, 3, 8, 6, 1, 8, 2, 4, 1, 4, 8, 5, 2, 4, 2, 8, 5

## Magnitude by day, last 14 days

10-20 1.6, 10-21 1.4, 10-22 1.2, 10-23 1.5, 10-24 1.0, 10-25 1.4, 10-26 1.0, 10-27 1.4, 10-28 1.7, 10-29 1.4, 10-30 1.3, 10-31 1.4, 11-01 1.4, 11-02 1.6

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Magnitude (0–10) measures how fast and how unusually interest in a repository is growing right now. It is not a quality score.
Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-11-02 23:16 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.