Comment by sergiotapia
Comment by sergiotapia a day ago
Personally, I looked into protobuf for our Elixir/React Native wombocombo but the second I realized we would have to deploy app updates when we added or removed a field from the response structure it became a non-starter.
I can't imagine using protobuf when you're in the first 5 years of a product.
I'm pretty sure protobuf ignores new fields (if you add; assuming you add as an append, and not change the field ordering), and it recommends you not to remove a field to ensure backward compatibility.