Re:MessagePack: like JSON, but fast and small
by nitrogen on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @04:09PM
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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
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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.