Re:MessagePack: like JSON, but fast and small
by yellowapple on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @03:20AM
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> Nobody says "what a shame I can't open that jpeg image in a text editor".
Nobody except me, of course. I'd be thrilled if I could open up a JPEG in Emacs and e.g. view/edit the EXIF metadata in a text buffer (and/or pop up a graphics buffer for editing the image itself). Similarly, I'd be thrilled if Emacs was able to parse MessagePack data and let me view/edit it in a buffer. Both of these things are theoretically possible, but to my knowledge nobody's actually done them yet.
Granted, calling Emacs "just" a text editor is pretty stretchy, but still.
Nobody except me, of course. I'd be thrilled if I could open up a JPEG in Emacs and e.g. view/edit the EXIF metadata in a text buffer (and/or pop up a graphics buffer for editing the image itself). Similarly, I'd be thrilled if Emacs was able to parse MessagePack data and let me view/edit it in a buffer. Both of these things are theoretically possible, but to my knowledge nobody's actually done them yet.
Granted, calling Emacs "just" a text editor is pretty stretchy, but still.