Buf
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5recommend
2warn against
Feb 9, 2026first mention
Aug 17, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“Buf has made my life easier”
switched from protocon “Protobuf has LSP support. You're welcome”
“There is no better stack, I'll die on this hill.”
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“buf is a parser / compiler as an alternative to protoc”
“with the advantage that you can just keep Protobuf and all the battle hardened tooling that comes with it”
“Now it's just "buf generate"”
Caveats and dissent
“Buf's offering of protobuf registries and codegen SDKs for microservices seems less necessary in the LLM era.”
“Buf.build, never again.”
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Threads where it came up
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All comments 8
“Buf has made my life easier”
“There is no better stack, I'll die on this hill.”
“buf is a parser / compiler as an alternative to protoc”
“Buf's offering of protobuf registries and codegen SDKs for microservices seems less necessary in the LLM era.”
“Buf.build, never again.”
“with the advantage that you can just keep Protobuf and all the battle hardened tooling that comes with it”
“Now it's just "buf generate"”
“their compatibility checkers, like Buf's `buf breaking`”