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Re:Amazon Ion – A richly-typed, self-describing, hierarchica... by amitport on Saturday November 20, 2021 @02:56AM (#29286374)
Well that's just like using C structs. The best serialization protocol :).
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Re:Amazon Ion – A richly-typed, self-describing, hierarchica... by nly on Saturday November 20, 2021 @04:24AM (#29286664)
Some finance software systems do that too. It tends to be a nightmare because people end up adding new message types just to add a single field
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