Re:Near Future of Programming Languages [pdf]
by pdimitar on Friday November 03, 2017 @05:21PM
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I don't disagree but during my career I've found surprising amount of cases where ASN.1 and its practical encodings like DER, BER and PER work impressively well.
Human readability however has always been the selling point of terrible formats like XML and JSON.
Not sure how can a binary-compact format ever account for that. Maybe excellent cross-platform tools that allow you to inspect and modify the binary-compact format wherever it is? (I mean not only standalone CLI and GUI software; I also mean native browser support in the Dev Tools space and going down the line in the future -- transparent support for the format[s] natively in the programming languages / VMs themselves.)
Human readability however has always been the selling point of terrible formats like XML and JSON.
Not sure how can a binary-compact format ever account for that. Maybe excellent cross-platform tools that allow you to inspect and modify the binary-compact format wherever it is? (I mean not only standalone CLI and GUI software; I also mean native browser support in the Dev Tools space and going down the line in the future -- transparent support for the format[s] natively in the programming languages / VMs themselves.)