One of the biggest culture shock moments when I came back to the web world after spending time in high performance environments was how many resources web appli

One of the biggest culture shock moments when I came back to the web world after spending time in high performance environments was how many resources web applications were willing to waste on parsing and sending terribly inefficient wire formats. I’ll never understand why we’d make the trade off of making crazy inefficient human readable protocols for talking between computers instead of learning wire shark.