Re:Parsing gigabytes of JSON per second
by cogman10 on Sunday October 24, 2021 @11:17AM
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Yeah and to b, it really just comes down to a lack of tools and people experienced in those tools (IMO).
There's no reason a binary format couldn't be as easy to read as a JSON format. All you'd really need is a "binary->json" gui and you're off.
It would take a little effort to make such a tool and you could have it integrated into every browser.
It's not like something like that is unprecedented even, After all, there's no browser tool out there that's showing you the gzipped resource on a compressed endpoint. It's always already doing the step of gunzipping. binary->Json would similarly be just an additional step the browser could do in the tools.
There's no reason a binary format couldn't be as easy to read as a JSON format. All you'd really need is a "binary->json" gui and you're off.
It would take a little effort to make such a tool and you could have it integrated into every browser.
It's not like something like that is unprecedented even, After all, there's no browser tool out there that's showing you the gzipped resource on a compressed endpoint. It's always already doing the step of gunzipping. binary->Json would similarly be just an additional step the browser could do in the tools.