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Well, I don't believe calling it a rip-off was necessarily criticism. As they say: mediocrity borrows, genius steals.

Also, I must plead ignorance. I've never worked with ASN.1 or these other formats. From my cursory examination, ASN.1 seems to be far more complex.

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this is a complete fabrication. facebook's thrift was inspired by pillar, an rpc library written in ml by former cto adam d'angelo.

I understand why Facebook might want to claim this in public, but don't call people 'fabricator', okay? You never know when someone might just have conclusive evidence that proves you wrong.

Don't get me wrong, I admire Facebook for making Thrift public, and it was a great thing for the internet. It was probably foolish of me to focus on the lineage of the thing.

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