Interesting that your experience with Bencode was this positive. I've implemented a Bencode serializer/deserializer in Rust and here are a few things I've notic

Interesting that your experience with Bencode was this positive. I've implemented a Bencode serializer/deserializer in Rust and here are a few things I've noticed: * It is very easy to parse/produce Bencode * It's probably fast * The specification is really bad * No float type * No string type, just byte sequences. This is especially bad because most/all dictionary keys will be utf-8 strings in practice but you can't rely on it * Integers are arbitrary length, most implementations just ignore this I think Bencode is an ok format for its use case, but I don't think it should be used instead of json.