> I'm not afraid of binary protocols as long as there is tooling to interact with the data. I agree with this premise but would also note how long it takes for

> I'm not afraid of binary protocols as long as there is tooling to interact with the data. I agree with this premise but would also note how long it takes for such tooling to become widespread. Even UTF-8 took awhile to become universal — I recall fiddling with it on the command line as recently as Windows 7 (code page 1252 and the like).