[Dovecot] v3.0 architecture

[Andrey Panin]

On 147, 05 27, 2009 at 01:31:41PM +0400, Max Ivanov wrote:
> > The big problem is what the protocol should be. Use some existing RPC
> > protocol? It should be something extensible so that a plugin in imap process
> > can talk to a plugin in storage process, without the base processes knowing
> > anything about the details (e.g. imap-quota plugin asking quota usage from
> > storage's quota plugin).
> 
> Googles Protocol Buffers offer both flexibility and speed.

"Protocol buffers are Google's ... blah-blah-blah ... using a variety of 
languages - Java, C++, or Python."

I can't find good old plain C in this "variety of languages" :(