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Ask HN: What are the *technical* reasons you favor JSON over bencode?
- CarolineW 10y agoSo for those of you who, like me, didn't know what Bencode is, here's the description from wikipedia[0]: Bencode (pronounced like B encode) is the encoding used by the peer-to-peer file sharing system BitTorrent for storing and transmitting loosely structured data. It supports four different types of values: byte strings, integers, lists, and dictionaries (associative arrays). ... While less efficient than a pure binary encoding, bencoding is simple and (because numbers are encoded as text in decimal notation) is unaffected by endianness, which is important for a cross-platform application like BitTorrent. It is also fairly flexible, as long as applications ignore unexpected dictionary keys, so that new ones can be added without creating incompatibilities. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bencode https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bencode
- dozzie 10y agoBencoding is as human-readable as MessagePack, but not as concise. I don't see why would anybody choose bencoding today. Oh, and it doesn't guarantee that your message will fit in a single line. JSON can be encoded to a line.