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Wow that’s a bit harsh. You can’t think of any examples where you may need to send a string to something but want to do it quickly?

• amelius 4mo ago
  Yeah maybe a bit harsh. But the point is if you are looking for that kind of performance, I don't see why you wouldn't send binary data and then unpack it as needed.
  • appreciatorBus 4mo ago
    If you control both ends of the pipe, then sure. But for better or worse, large chunks of infrastructure expect to send or receive JSON.
    • amelius 4mo ago
      But JSON uses floats, not integers.
      • bee_rider 4mo ago
        Does it really? I assumed it used strings.
      • Shish2k 4mo ago
        javascript uses floats as its own default numeric data type; but other languages do have integers, and might want to convert those integers into a JSON (string) representation
    • __s 4mo ago
      csv/tsv are alive & well for interorg data pipelines
  • DarkUranium 4mo ago
    Because maybe the choice of serialization format isn't under your control?