I wish binary length-prefixed formats would've become more common. Parsing text, and especially escaping, seems to be a continual source of bugs and confusion.

I wish binary length-prefixed formats would've become more common. Parsing text, and especially escaping, seems to be a continual source of bugs and confusion. Then again, those who don't implement escaping correctly may also overlap with those who can't be bothered learning how to use a hex editor.