Protobuf map conversion

[Janaka-Steph]

Any particular reason protobuf map is converted to an object rather than a JS Map, as it is the case with official js plugin?

[timostamm]

Hey Stéphane, I assume you mean ECMAScript Map objects?

They can be pretty nice, but don't seem to offer anything plain objects can't for protobuf. With the spread operator and very straight-forward literals, it appears that plain objects are actually a bit nicer to work with most of the time. If I remember correctly, there's also a performance penalty around maps vs object. So that's how we ended up with object instead of Map.

BTW, the official js plugin uses its own Map implementation.

[Janaka-Steph]

Thank you very much for your answer!