Why is binary better? With binary you need to worry about versioning, you need to worry about API support, you cant as easily verify the contents of what you'r

Why is binary better? With binary you need to worry about versioning, you need to worry about API support, you cant as easily verify the contents of what you're passing around - in general the industry has moved away from binary everything towards text based file formats (containerized like OOXML, or ODF), text based signalling (SIP, and XMPP) - I can go on. While I think binary blobs have a place, I dont think they're a panacea to solve problems - I consider them an anti-pattern because they make the humans trying to troubleshoot when things go wrong much harder.