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Also: debugging You (a human) can just open a JSON request or response and read what's in it. With protobuf you need to build or use tooling that can see what
by theshrike79 11mo ago
Also: debugging
You (a human) can just open a JSON request or response and read what's in it.
With protobuf you need to build or use tooling that can see what's going on.
- generativenoise 11mo agoIt is only "human readable" since our tooling is so bad and the lowest common denominator tooling we have can dump out a sequence of bytes as ascii/utf-8 text somewhat reliably. One can imagine a world where the lowest common denominator format being a richer structured binary format where every system has tooling to work with it out of the box and that would be considered human readable.