Go Protobuf: The new Opaque API

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<h1>Go Protobuf: The new Opaque API</h1>
  
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  Michael Stapelberg<br>
  16 December 2024
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  <p>[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protocol_Buffers" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">Protocol Buffers (Protobuf)</a>
is Google’s language-neutral data interchange format. See
protobuf.dev.]

Back in March 2020, we released the google.golang.org/protobuf module, a major overhaul of the Go Protobuf API. This package introduced first-class support for reflection, a https://go.dev/blog/protobuf-opaque