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I think I understand the point being made, but all this reliance on text-based data means we require proper agreement on text encodings, etc. I don't think it's
by uoaei 2y ago
I think I understand the point being made, but all this reliance on text-based data means we require proper agreement on text encodings, etc. I don't think it's very useful for number-based data anyway, it's a massively bloated way to store float32s for instance and usually developers truncate the data losing about half of the precision in the process.
For numerical data, nothing beats packing floats into blobs.
- zzo38computer 2y agoI think binary formats have many advantages. Not only for numbers but other data as well, including data that contains text (to avoid needing escaping, etc; and to declare what character sets are being used if that is necessary), and other structures. (For some of my stuff I use a variant of DER, which adds a few new types such as key/value list type.)