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"All human readable serialization formats are stupid and messy in some way".

Fixed that for you.

There's plenty of simple binary serialization formats that, while not perfect, don't generally qualify as stupid or messy.




like msgpack

as long as you don't take stuff as ASN.1 representative for binary formats. Wait, there is a human readable serialization format for ASN.1 using XML...


ASN.1 is so difficult to defend. ;-)




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