Initial public release (rc1)

[dylan-bourque]

This is the initial release candidate for the library.

This release includes:

• an efficient Protobuf encoder and decoder, each of which operate on a []byte
• runtime-agnostic (from the caller side) implementations of Size(), Marshal(), Unmarshal(), HasExtension(), GetExtension(), and SetExtension() to allow consumers of Protobuf data to avoid directly depending on any particular Protobuf runtime (Gogo vs Google V1 vs Google V2)
• a custom protoc plugin, protoc-gen-fastmarshal, that emits reflection-free logic for marshaling and unmarshaling Go types to/from Protobuf binary format
  • the Size(), Marshal(), and Unmarshal() functions will check for these more efficient implementations and call them if they exist

Known Gaps:

• No support for proto3 map fields (see Issue Need support for encoding and decoding proto3 map fields #3)

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