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It sounds a lot like google protocol buffers, or one of the many java serialization frameworks. This "jam" thing may be better integrated into the urbit archite
by openasocket 11y ago
It sounds a lot like google protocol buffers, or one of the many java serialization frameworks. This "jam" thing may be better integrated into the urbit architecture, but without any portability/interop with other systems/languages.
- urbit 11y agoSee the comment above; it's nice not to need a separate framework. At least, for Urbit to Urbit networking. Of course there's nothing stopping you from encoding or decoding anyone else's protocols in Urbit. Or vice versa. Actually, using bit functions on bigints is a fairly pleasant way of handling binary protocols. There's also no particular problem in generating or decoding jammed nouns on non-Urbit systems. It's a binary encoding, but the decoder is a page of code. Perhaps jam:ASN.1 as JSON:SGML. :-)