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Re:MessagePack: like JSON, but fast and small by ghayes on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @04:01PM (#22539044)
The argument, originally, I believe was that comments might be hacked to “extend” JSON with various additions (e.g. dates via an end of line marker). Comments were excluded to keep the format stable, which, FWIW, has worked.
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Re:MessagePack: like JSON, but fast and small by ric2b on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @06:23AM (#22544572)
That's a bad argument, since you can still do that with "magic" fields or metadata fields.
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