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I officially know way too much about async rust and I really wish I didn't

building open source public goods @a16zcrypto

I’ve been feeling the same way last few days about protobuf serialization

haardik.dev | Founder @learnweb3 | lead instructor /uniswaphooks | building @openfarcaster

Apparently the cosmos people use serialized protobuf for consensus critical hashing and that keeps me up at night. No idea how those chains are still running.

what do you think of https://capnproto.org/

yes. they have a canonicalization scheme. 

i think, cosmos trying to do something similar with this

yes. they have a canonicalization scheme. 

i think, cosmos trying to do something similar with this https://docs.cosmos.network/main/architecture/adr-027-deterministic-protobuf-serialization

I've heard of it but haven't tried it out yet. It does have deterministic serialization though which might make it more viable for consensus critical stuff.