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Re:MessagePack: like JSON, but fast and small by korijn on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @03:46PM (#22538873)
The key difference is the target audience. The format's "UX", so to speak, is optimized for the target audience (machine or human). @jrockway makes an excellent point.
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Re:MessagePack: like JSON, but fast and small by mark-r on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @03:50PM (#22538922)
Why must those be mutually exclusive? There's value in being understandable by both.
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Re:MessagePack: like JSON, but fast and small by nitrogen on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @04:09PM (#22539142)
Having comments in a "wire format" provides a means for the spec to become meaningless as random applications start using comments to convey information (or exfiltrate data) that other applications cannot parse correctly.
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Re:MessagePack: like JSON, but fast and small by mark-r on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @05:02PM (#22539653)
There should be a special place in hell reserved for people who use comments to convey machine readable information. The whole point of a comment is to provide something that has no semantic meaning.
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