> So the problem with “Data transfer is in binary” is that it really requires both the source and the recipients to be running the same executable, otherwise yo

> So the problem with “Data transfer is in binary” is that it really requires both the source and the recipients to be running the same executable, otherwise you run into some really weird problems. I think you're misinterpreting "data transfer is in binary" with something like "a raw memory dump of an object in your program, without any serialisation or parsing step".