Data are just bytes. You can serialize data into an encoding, or you can send a raw memory snippet. It's implementation detail. Binary data is not a problem for

Data are just bytes. You can serialize data into an encoding, or you can send a raw memory snippet. It's implementation detail. Binary data is not a problem for UNIX pipes. Perl has powerful pack/unpack methods to efficiently work with binary data. Do you have tools to use this feature? If not, who will write them? Who will define a standard format to use? Who will extend the standard format, when necessary?