Re:DBus and Systemd
by zzo38computer on Wednesday May 29, 2024 @06:20PM
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A binary format does not need to be complicated, and does not need to be the same as D-Bus (which has many problems). Furthermore, it can avoid some of the things in JSON, e.g. requiring escaping, requiring Unicode, not properly supporting 64-bit integers, embedded binary data cannot be made directly, etc.
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Re:DBus and Systemd
by jauntywundrkind on Wednesday May 29, 2024 @11:19PM
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Sure yeah dude, in far off fantasy land it can all be perfect. There's no tradeoffs up in the clouds.
Strikes me as a super bad attitude walking around with your nose way up in the air, leaving these farts behind you as you go. These comments aren't really couched in reality as far as I can see. They don't point anywhere specific, they're just broad swideswipes.
Here in the real world we keep reusing maybe so so protocols because they are scrutable & well implemented & we humans have lots of experience and tools using them.