<sep/>several development tools. Ready for C/C++, Java, Ruby, Python, Kernel and Mobile development. Contains Eclipse, Netbeans, ViM and several other libraries and tools
Protocol buffers are Google's language-neutral, platform-neutral, extensible mechanism for serializing structured data – think XML, but smaller, faster, and simpler.
Protocol Buffers are a way of encoding structured data in an efficient yet extensible format. Google uses Protocol Buffers for almost all of its internal RPC protocols and file formats.