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You can at least get the structure out of that from the textual representation. How well do your eyeballs do looking at a hex dump of protobufs or ASN.1?
by chuckadams 1y ago
You can at least get the structure out of that from the textual representation. How well do your eyeballs do looking at a hex dump of protobufs or ASN.1?
- jancsika 1y agoAt least with hex dump you know you're gonna look at hex dump. With XML you dream of self-documenting structure but wake up to SVG arc commands. Two positional flags. Two!
- chuckadams 1y agoTrue, any format can be abused, though I'm not sure SVG could really do much better. What I really love is when people tell me that XML is just sexps in drag: I paste a screenful of lisp, delete a random parenthesis in the middle, and challenge them to tell me where the syntax error is without relying on formatting (the compiler sure doesn't). Mind you I love the hell out of lisp, it just isn't The One True Syntax over all others.