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Re:Son – A minimal subset of JSON for machine-to-machine com... by seagreen on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @06:26PM (#13872055)
This is the second time Bencode's been mentioned in the context of Son. I didn't know about it before, it definitely looks interesting! However if you're sending data to a service that only accepts JSON then it's obviously not an option.
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Re:Son – A minimal subset of JSON for machine-to-machine com... by RodgerTheGreat on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @06:29PM (#13872075)
Fair enough. Backwards compatibility is useful in some contexts.
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Re:Son – A minimal subset of JSON for machine-to-machine com... by seagreen on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @07:26PM (#13872495)
By the way, I love that Bencode is bijective. That's a really nice property for a serialization format, and even though I don't mention it on the README it's one of the goals of Son.
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