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Re:Useful Old Technologies: ASN.1 (2013) by pantalaimon on Sunday December 26, 2021 @05:57AM (#29691377)
I'd rather use CBOR instead of JSON when doing anything outside the browser that doesn't need to be human editable
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Re:Useful Old Technologies: ASN.1 (2013) by formerly_proven on Sunday December 26, 2021 @09:40AM (#29692696)
IMHO: CBOR is a worse encoding than msgpack, despite being a copy-paste clone of msgpack: Indefinite lengths, weird fp formats (decimal floats?), iirc CBOR also "improved" msgpack's int encoding by making it annoying to de- and encode, the whole tagging system is superfluous etc.

Just because something has an RFC number doesn't make it good.

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