>Approximately 100% of CVEs, crashes, bugs, slowdowns, and pain points of computing have to do with various forms of deserialising binary data back into machine-readable data structures. All because a) human programmers forget to account for edge cases, and b) imperative programming languages allow us to do so.

This. One year ago UK air traffic control collapsed due to inability to properly parse "faulty" flight plan: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37461695