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Until you have to work with big and little endian systems. There are other weirdness about how different computers represent things as well. utf-8 / ucs-16 st
by bluGill 7mo ago
Until you have to work with big and little endian systems. There are other weirdness about how different computers represent things as well. utf-8 / ucs-16 strings (or other code pages). Not all floats are ieee-754. Still when you can ignore all those issues what you did is really easy and often works.
- codedokode 7mo agoI disagree. Big endian is long dead and not worth worrying about. And code pages too. What is more important, is dealing with schema changes, when you add new fields to requests and responses.
- bluGill 7mo agoThere are niches where those matter. but yes schema changes is most likely to get you today