> It should stop pretending to remain human-readable, go binary, and become a variant of protocol buffers, thrift, etc. There are lots of ways standard ways to

> It should stop pretending to remain human-readable, go binary, and become a variant of protocol buffers, thrift, etc. There are lots of ways standard ways to do serialization to binary formats. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_data-serialization_formats#Comparison_of_binary_formats https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_data-serializati... > BTW being schemaless is a boon during initial hacking things together, and an impediment when operating and developing the system further down the line. It's the data equivalent of dynamic typing vs static typing, interpreted vs compiled in code. Sounds like XML, which is a whole other discussion :-)