[protobuf] Re: Why does Protobuf generate outer classes for Java?

Oh okay. So it sounds like many languages, including Java, originally generated code where every message's type was placed into a single generated file (a file per .proto file). For Java, you can only have one public class per file, so the outer class technique was used so that it could be the

[protobuf] Why does Protobuf generate outer classes for Java?

I googled this and found questions like "How to use Protobuf message as java class without a java outer class?" ( https://stackoverflow.com/questions/60312156/how-to-use-protobuf-message-as-java-class-without-a-java-outer-class) which talk about how one might tweak their Protobuf Java code