Bebop: An Efficient, Schema-Based Binary Serialization Format

Re:Bebop: An Efficient, Schema-Based Binary Serialization Fo... by otabdeveloper4 on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @09:11AM (#26634162)

FlatBuffers creates its own demented and completely incompatible data structures when deserializing into C++. Which means you then need to copy the FlatBuffers structures into normal ones, defeating the entire point of "zero-copy" in the first place.

This thing it looks like uses normal C++ structures under the hood, and if so that's a huge plus.

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Re:Bebop: An Efficient, Schema-Based Binary Serialization Fo... by pdimitar on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @11:32AM (#26635787)

I don't see why C++ considerations get priority over everything else, or are you making another point?

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Re:Bebop: An Efficient, Schema-Based Binary Serialization Fo... by otabdeveloper4 on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @12:28PM (#26636683)

They do get priority when you're primarily coding in C++, obviously. Not everything is Javascript-first. Different requirements for different folks.

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Re:Bebop: An Efficient, Schema-Based Binary Serialization Fo... by pdimitar on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @01:14PM (#26637351)

I am not a JS dev, don't project your frustration on me. ;)

So okay, FlatBuffers doesn't map its zero-copy philosophy perfectly everywhere -- fact of life. What would you offer then? Which other format and/or library?

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Re:Bebop: An Efficient, Schema-Based Binary Serialization Fo... by otabdeveloper4 on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @01:43PM (#26637763)

Never used this Bebop thing, but I'd have definitely preferred it to FlatBuffers back when I was shopping for serialization libraries.

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