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Situation: there are now n+1 competing serialization protocols https://xkcd.com/927/ https://xkcd.com/927/

• trendia 10y ago
  Sad you got downvoted. That's pretty much what the author did -- list a bunch of serialization protocols, say that the ones developed in the 80's were good enough, and then recommend we all use MessagePack.
  • yborg 10y ago
    That isn't accurate, he states preference for XDR, which is ancient, and that he "likes" MessagePack. He didn't explicitly advocate it. Not blaming anybody for skimming the post, which was a pretty typical blogrant, if it was from certain other people it would be clearly clickbait, but this seemed like at least genuine ranting.
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    • wtetzner 10y ago
      Well, XDR with some changes. In other words, yet another protocol.
    • scottlocklin 10y ago
      It was actually an email to a colleague who is a little too enthusiastic about serialization protocols. I thought it was funny rather than anything resembling advice. I'll probably use messagepack instead of json in an upcoming project for performance reasons, and the fact it works better than the json thing in J.
    • rurban 10y ago
      Because MessagePack is essentially XDR, just minor differences.
• ninjakeyboard 10y ago
  I thought of this immediately. Not sure why you're downvoted.
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