Florian Zenker

Thanks for the PR. IIUC, the PR assumes that there are no implementations of proto.Message that rely on embedding another proto.Message. That's unlikely to exist, but there are a lot...

Keep in mind that your type is implementing proto.Message if you embed a proto message. If you do that and pass it to a function that accepts a proto.Message it's...

`proto.String` and friends are functions that need to be learned to understand what they are doing and when they need to be used. Also, I am pretty sure that people...

> I'm not sure I follow. Why do I have to learn what they are doing to use them? They take a value and return something I can store in...

https://go.dev/cl/718065 is breaking a lot of Google internal targets with `relocation R_X86_64_PC32 out of range` errors. At least most of these targets use external linking and can't be released anymore....

@stapelberg looked into this last week. He found that the C linker takes care of placing `.rodata` and `.text` close to each other (so that relative references work as well...