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Discuss on GroupsView on GitHub Introduction Cap’n Proto is an insanely fast data interchange format and capability-based RPC system. Think JSON, except binary. Or think Protocol Buffers, except faste...

The Cap’n Proto tools, including the compiler (which takes .capnp files and generates source code for them), are written in C++. Therefore, you must install the C++ package even if your actual develo...

Road Map Here’s what’s (hopefully) in store for future versions of Cap’n Proto! Of course, everything here is subject to change. Near-ish future Provisionally, these are probably the things that will ...

64-bit Words For the purpose of Cap’n Proto, a “word” is defined as 8 bytes, or 64 bits. Since alignment of data is important, all objects (structs, lists, and blobs) are aligned to word boundaries, a...